It’s going to be Christmas day in an hour’s time and I’ve been thinking of something meaningful to say and I decided to touch on a tradition I started around two-years back of buying Christmas cards from a colleague of mine, who likes to hand paint them.
My former colleague has a particular talent or at
least she has a particular effect on me. She is a 36-year-old woman who has the
ability to make her inner child come through. It was just something about her
that made you forget the fact that she’s a grown woman. Couldn’t get angry with
her because it would be like getting angry with a wobbly-child that needed a
hug.
Anyway, she’s managed to get that part of her personality
shinning through in her art work and I always get a sense of tummy tickling delight
when looking at her art work. I buy her cards and send them out in the hope of
sharing the positive emotions that I get from viewing someone’s inner child.
The man whose birthday we celebrate on 25 December
every year is supposed to have come down to earth to bring humanity closer together.
He was a man born in circumstances so poor that in the modern context you’d say
that he was a welfare case. Yet, two-thousand years later, we call him the
king-of-kings. He was a man who made “love” the centre of his teaching and
instead of using his power to rule the universe, he chose to hang out with the
dregs of society. You could say that he loved humanity the way a child does
before its taught to hate and is given a false sense of superiority based on
superfluous things.
So, on Christmas day, we need to have a portion of the
man whose birthday we celebrate. Have an open heart to your fellow man. When I
look at the “cute-cards” I order, I think of good things like marshmallows and
fluffy pillows for at least one day of the year, which gives me the energy to
deal with the usual misery of daily life like bills, poverty, plagues and so on
for the remaining 364 days.
So, here’s me wishing everyone a Merry Christmas filled
with happy thoughts. Buying my “cute-cards” helped me think good things and I
urge everyone to look for their inner child for at least that one day in the calendar
year.
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