Christmas Joy
While reading this I hope the voice in your head is not monotone, or else this will lose all the meaning I tried so hard to put into it.
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If you understand the meaning of Christmas, does that mean that you appreciate it more? By gaining that enlightenment, do the joy of the holidays grip your heart more aptly? You could be so happy and so ready to receive the slap in the face you so sorely deserve that is the realization of what Christmas stands for, yet you may not be ready for what you did not expect.
What if the realization is something different, something new, wild, outlandish, or even gruesome or morbid? Christmas is such a wide combination of things, yet all we hear about is the joy and happiness it brings. What about the sorrow? The lost loved one on Christmas Day, those that were there last year but could not make it due to plane cancellations, the New Year's Resolutions that you promised to follow but cut off in the middle of carrying them out, and the reflection on the bad deeds committed over the year; the sorrow behind Christmas.
Then again, what about the joy? Joy is a perfectly acceptable emotion to be overcome by during the winter season. Anything can be dipped in joy and then sprinkled with reverence and happiness. Those that cannot be with you can connect with you in other ways by phone communication, remembering the pleasant features to a person, or simply concentrating on the positive things in life and converting to an optimist (at least over the holidays).
Joy is in the center of the room. Joy is the light that can be flicked on at any time you wish. It is contagious and can illuminate the entire room depending on its depth and brightness. Everyone has turned it on once in awhile, or else they would have stubbed their toe numerous times in the dark of pain and sadness. When interrupted in the middle of a dream we stumble around in a foggy haze of regret and remorse, yet if we merely turn on a light our toil is remedied.
In dreams do we find a world purely of our own creation. We are the ones to make the decision whether our dreamland is a paradise, or merely an oasis in a loathsome desert. Most often the choice is to be happy, and who doesn’t want that? This is why no one truly wants to be discontent around the holidays and the New Year, because the alternative is so much worse. Why be sad when you have the decision right there in front of you to turn on the light and be happy? Why be sad when you could shed some light on other’s moods as well and create an entire scene of merriment?
No one wants to make that choice to be unhappy during the holidays, however, sometimes it cannot be helped. The weak and the poor, the dying and the suffering, they cannot help it if they have no money, they have no family, no food nor drink, or poor health. If they could help it why would they be in that state of unpleasantness? All they want is for a helping hand. They need someone else to turn on the light because their own has been taken away.
We all have that torch to light and carry about. Light it and make someone else’s holiday. Continue it all year round.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. Spread the love.
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If you understand the meaning of Christmas, does that mean that you appreciate it more? By gaining that enlightenment, do the joy of the holidays grip your heart more aptly? You could be so happy and so ready to receive the slap in the face you so sorely deserve that is the realization of what Christmas stands for, yet you may not be ready for what you did not expect.
What if the realization is something different, something new, wild, outlandish, or even gruesome or morbid? Christmas is such a wide combination of things, yet all we hear about is the joy and happiness it brings. What about the sorrow? The lost loved one on Christmas Day, those that were there last year but could not make it due to plane cancellations, the New Year's Resolutions that you promised to follow but cut off in the middle of carrying them out, and the reflection on the bad deeds committed over the year; the sorrow behind Christmas.
Then again, what about the joy? Joy is a perfectly acceptable emotion to be overcome by during the winter season. Anything can be dipped in joy and then sprinkled with reverence and happiness. Those that cannot be with you can connect with you in other ways by phone communication, remembering the pleasant features to a person, or simply concentrating on the positive things in life and converting to an optimist (at least over the holidays).
Joy is in the center of the room. Joy is the light that can be flicked on at any time you wish. It is contagious and can illuminate the entire room depending on its depth and brightness. Everyone has turned it on once in awhile, or else they would have stubbed their toe numerous times in the dark of pain and sadness. When interrupted in the middle of a dream we stumble around in a foggy haze of regret and remorse, yet if we merely turn on a light our toil is remedied.
In dreams do we find a world purely of our own creation. We are the ones to make the decision whether our dreamland is a paradise, or merely an oasis in a loathsome desert. Most often the choice is to be happy, and who doesn’t want that? This is why no one truly wants to be discontent around the holidays and the New Year, because the alternative is so much worse. Why be sad when you have the decision right there in front of you to turn on the light and be happy? Why be sad when you could shed some light on other’s moods as well and create an entire scene of merriment?
No one wants to make that choice to be unhappy during the holidays, however, sometimes it cannot be helped. The weak and the poor, the dying and the suffering, they cannot help it if they have no money, they have no family, no food nor drink, or poor health. If they could help it why would they be in that state of unpleasantness? All they want is for a helping hand. They need someone else to turn on the light because their own has been taken away.
We all have that torch to light and carry about. Light it and make someone else’s holiday. Continue it all year round.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. Spread the love.