Christmas is in the Air!
Posted on 12.07.07 12:32PM under Blogging
Christmas is in the air! The cool, crisp breeze at night, the “million stars” perched up on trees and by the roadside covered with dazzling Christmas lights, gigantic Christmas trees in big malls, people rushing to complete their Christmas shoppings, booking trips for Christmas vacation destinations, exchanging gifts, company parties are only some of the noticeable activities around us that would tell us that the holiday season is really coming. This is the time of year that most people look forward to because people simply want to be good to everyone and share good tidings. It’s a season for love, happiness, peace, hope and forgiveness.
This is one of the Christmases that I am looking forward to. I will be going home to my hometown and be with my family. I haven’t spent Christmas with them last year due to work reasons but I am so glad that for this year, I can be with them. I miss my ever loving and supportive parents, my siblings and the friends I left. It has been so long since I have seen them. As the date for my trip home gets closer, I find myself lost in reverie as I tread down memory lane.
In my childhood years, I used to believe in Santa Claus. Yes people, I really believed in this old man in red suit with a bushy white beard and mustache who lives in North Pole with the elves who are very busy preparing gifts for children all over the world. It sounds ridiculous that my innocent and childish mind was completely mesmerized by the thought that Santa Claus from North Pole really comes to town. I used to put stockings by the window in my room expecting that Santa will drop by with his reindeers and I was hoping to see Rudolph, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid and the rest. When morning came and I checked out my stocking, it was already full of sweets. I thought it was from Santa. Consequently, as more Christmases came and added years to my age, I gradually embraced the idea that Santa Claus doesn’t really live in North Pole with his industrious elves but he is someone whom people become as we spread love, happiness, peace and hope wherever we may be.
Oh, I just can’t help but be whimsical when I think of the wonderful memories I had with my loved ones and I couldn’t wait to spend more happy memories with them this yuletide season. I just couldn’t wait to go home.
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