Just something I found...I really liked it.
Now the one thing you have to know about Christmas, the one thing you really need to know, the thing that all children know with every fibre of their being, is that Christmas never comes.
No matter how many days go by, no matter how many doors are opened on the advent calendar, no matter how hard you wish, the day itself never comes. It's always there in the future, always approaching but never arriving. And the closer it comes, the slower it approaches almost as if about to change its mind and retreat again into the distant future. And then, suddenly, magically, one day it's Christmas eve and the clocks seem to tick slower and slower as you crawl through the day, watching every movement of the second hand. The day plods through the afternoon from dinner to lunch and through the evening as the TV fails to distract you from the ever slowing second hand until you get sent to bed unconscionably early, there to lie, tossing and turning and checking the unmoving clock every few seconds. And then suddenly, there is sunlight peeking shyly through the curtains and a few hardy birds are twittering self-consciously and it's the day, at last it's the day!
No matter how many days go by, no matter how many doors are opened on the advent calendar, no matter how hard you wish, the day itself never comes. It's always there in the future, always approaching but never arriving. And the closer it comes, the slower it approaches almost as if about to change its mind and retreat again into the distant future. And then, suddenly, magically, one day it's Christmas eve and the clocks seem to tick slower and slower as you crawl through the day, watching every movement of the second hand. The day plods through the afternoon from dinner to lunch and through the evening as the TV fails to distract you from the ever slowing second hand until you get sent to bed unconscionably early, there to lie, tossing and turning and checking the unmoving clock every few seconds. And then suddenly, there is sunlight peeking shyly through the curtains and a few hardy birds are twittering self-consciously and it's the day, at last it's the day!