Welcome to December, and the “Holiday Season” of Christmas,
Hanukah, Yuletide, Kwanzaa and various other religious, spiritual and cultural
celebrations.
With this season comes a wonderful, worldwide sense of
community spirit, kindness, giving, forgiveness, and other such positive
attitudes and interactions between individuals.
Forget for a moment all the stresses, financial burdens,
arguments and what-nots, and let us concentrate on that positivity. Some people
may dislike Christmas, or may not celebrate it (or any of the other holidays),
but even those people will surely notice the positivity that resonates from
those around them.
A prime example from my own personal experience is when my
then-fiancé and I had returned from outside of Thanet and it was very, very
late and terribly cold, so we wanted to get a taxi. On arrival at the taxi
place, however, we found that neither of us had enough cash, nor anything in
our bank accounts. We were well-and-truly “skint” and would have to take the
long walk home in very inhospitable weather at stupid-AM. Overhearing our
distress, however, was another Thanet resident who asked us where we needed to
get to and proceeded to state that she was “headed that way anyway” so we could
get her taxi home with her, without any charge. “Thank you so, so much” we
replied in gratitude, and were met with the statement “no, no need to thank me!
It’s Christmas!”. It was a wonderful thing, but I know in my heart that this
would not have happened were the month January or October, for example.
All this goodness is, indeed, good, but my thought for you today
to say is… “Why only at Christmas?”. Seriously, where is all that overwhelming
positivity the other three-hundred-and-sixty-four (not including “Eves”, Boxing
Day, etc) days of the year?
Did you know that food banks (where spare food is donated
for people who have little or no food in their cupboards), charity shops, soup
kitchens (where homeless people go to eat free, freshly cooked meals) become overwhelmed with donations and
volunteers in December? Yet the rest of the year, these places struggle.
Why only get the entire family together for Christmas? Why
only give presents for Christmas, and Birthdays? Why not show each other your
love as often as you can?
One of my “Illisms” - something I will write about on a
later date – is to “treat every day like Christmas Day”, and I have decided to
be literal with it this year. I have recorded a video about what I plan to do
and started another Blog to write about my “adventures”. I would really
appreciate it if you all watched the video and read the Blog. This is going to be
a big part of my life this year, which I hope will really help to combat my
depression and of course help others who are in need, as well.
Thank you, and a
“Merry-Every-Day-Of-The-Year” to you all! #365Christmases ! :-)
