...And To All A Good Night!

Merry Christmas Everyone, and if there actually is anyone that gets offended by that term then Fuck Off. But for the majority of other cultures that don't take offense to that term, I hope you have had a lovely day. But being honest Christmas has become a less and less special time for me as time goes on, and not because i've been getting older, but because Christmas has been getting smaller. When I was a kid, we had the whole family around for Christmas, aunts & uncles, grandparents, the whole shebang. But as the years go on that group has gotten smaller and smaller, and this was the first Christmas where it was just me and my immediate family, my parents and my sister. And that's not what Christmas is about, Christmas is about spending time with the people in your life that you don't get to spend as much time with as you'd like, it's about reflecting on your year and endulging in stupid holiday traditions, but it's what makes them so personal what makes them so fun. My family has pretty much lost all of our Christmas traditions and we spend it with the people we see all the time. I dream for the day when Christmas becomes a huge event again, distant relatives gathering together, kids eager to open their presents, trying to fit a dozen people around a dinner table. Sadly those days are still a fair number of years away, and until then, this is what I do on the happiest day of the year.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but Christmas is something more than that. Christmas isn't just a holiday, it's an event, it's a time when people express their love for each other all at once, it's when they actively want to do as much as possible to make others happy. Yes there's a lot of commercialism in the matter, but that doesn't make the magic any less special when you see someone's reaction when you get them that one thing they've been dying to have. If you don't love Christmas then you're just not spending it with the right people. But for those of you that already have what you need at Christmas, then I say happy holidays to you and a happy new year.

-Danny