My humble little blog has few readers and in some ways that makes it easier to be more honest as I’ll probably offend fewer people. Speaking from the heart should be just that, and not moderated for the sake of offense.
It has been a trend over the last dozen or more years that we in the West are in appeasement mode for people of other cultures and religions who choose to live here. If you are one of those people, then I truly wish you well. However I really don’t care about appeasement. You live here, then you really should be accepting of us, the same as we should be accepting of you. I mean that. We can’t be your original birth country, but at least we can try to support and embrace you. I think it fair for you to do the same to your new country.
I hate the thought of using a “you” and “us” type dialog. That is wrong. You live here and so you now are part of “us”, you are part of us. The “us” is all of us.
What upsets me is the trend to deny our own culture, our own heritage, and to deny that history was just that. History. We live as we do now for many reasons and many of those are because of history. Trying to deny atrocities and injustices is pointless and as rude as denying that we are the product of our ancestors.
What we should be doing is saying ‘we are as we now are’ and accept our life and embrace our opportunity at life.
Put simply, we must live and love and move forward.
If you don’t agree with a Christmas celebration, I really don’t have a problem with that. You are entitled to do so. I accept that. I accept that many religions don’t acknowledge Christmas, they have their own celebration. The Chinese have a huge Chinese New Year celebration and the little I know of it makes me think it is a lovely thing. Lovely. I believe in family, and the Chinese having a rich sense of family makes this a lovely time.
But no one should deny me and my children the Magic Of Christmas.
So, what is the ‘Magic Of Christmas’ then?
To me it is to bring family together, to enjoy each other’s company and to rejoice in our love. Christmas should also be about our children, giving them a day to enjoy, to look forward to, to laugh so hard they cry with happiness. Mixed in with that is the hope deep inside that the new year will bring happiness and peace. How nice! To think that the upcoming year will be a good one.
My 2017 was lovely. Celebrating our Christmas with family, the happiness still lingers. I saw children’s face light up with pleasure. I saw a partner’s tears of joy when a present was opened. Those are some of the best memories of my 2017 Christmas.
Maybe the social justice warriors will jump up and say this is all ‘White Privilege’ – so what would you like me to do or say about it? I work hard as did my parents and I live my life as I do, the best I can, and try to make the world and people around me better for my presence. If that offends you then quite frankly it is time for you to grow up, wake up and smell the roses. Life can be good and it is up to you and the people you misguidedly feel you represent to try to live that life. Happiness does take some work to achieve and it does take acceptance, being a social justice warrior is not that kind of work.
Sorry. I got derailed there in a senseless rant. However it does highlight that life is for living and loving and for us to do that ourselves.
I wish all my readers the most beautiful and loving Christmas and a wonderful new year with with all possible peace and happiness. Peace and happiness to ALL.
Do, love, live life – ‘Trikki
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