So I saw someone be cynical about Christmas recently and figured, as we move into the stress-induced mania that is finals week, I should go ahead and post this, as I did when I first began this blog.
Christmas is my favorite time of year. Not because it gets colder and we get presents, but because people let themselves relax and enjoy life and the people dear to them. It's the one time when we can forget our worries and take a moment to reflect on what we have, what we're thankful for, and what really matters. So here, I post an excerpt from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that I feel perfectly sums up how I feel about this special holiday.
"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it comes round-apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that-as a good time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say God bless it!"
-"A Christmas Carol"
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you and your love of christmas :) hehe i love it. btw im liking the christmas colors in your blog heh :)
ReplyDeleteHaha thanks. I had fall colors up too.
ReplyDeleteChristmas is amazing. It's a shame that as we get older we get more out of touch with what made Christmas so magical. I'm pretty sure if everyone could spend Christmas with a little kid in the house, preferably a family member rather than a child you kidnap, then they would see Christmas cheer in its purest form =]
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