Christmas. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind? It’s the 24th of December, 11.24 a.m. Here I am, the 26 year old “out-of-the box thinker” drafting the meaning of Christmas.
Returning to the question and its answers.
Gifts? Food? Shopping? Parties? Church? Fun?
Did I missed something? Yes, it’s natural all these things pop in to our mind, but what really is Christmas? What’s this excitement about? Whenever Christmas is near, we also hear this common question from most of the peeps, “is Christmas super for y’all?” OR “where’s Christmas for us?” In my language, it’s something similar to, “නත්තල් සුපිරිද?” “අපට නත්තල් කො?”
The context refers to know how celebratory Christmas is or a way of asking for treats. Sometimes I feel most are still not even aware what Christmas is, but just celebrate it for the sake of celebrating or more like a trend or convenience. Is Christmas celebratory? Well, yes. But what exactly do we even celebrate?
We all exchange gifts. We buy expensive gifts for our loved ones, wrap them up and keep it under the Christmas tree to open during midnight. We make yummy food, cake and so many stuff. But you know what, to me the magic lies in the small trinkets. It’s not about the price tag, it’s about the love you fill your gift with. I think kids these days expect the most expensive sort of gifts. Because adults around them don’t inspire them that the magic lies in simple things. And that’s what spreads the Christmas magic. Christmas day falls on the 25th of December every year. Even though no one knows the exact date of birth of Jesus Christ it is the special day where, the world celebrates the birthday of lord Jesus.
Christmas or the birth of Jesus emanates happiness, sharing, love and forgiveness. So, it’s basically for every human regardless of what they do, where they are from and all whatnots. That’s probably why we share gifts. And that’s why Christmas is for entire humanity. When you gift someone you gift them with forgiving love, and that brings happiness to the taker, also to the giver. It brings meaning for Christmas when all these emotions of happiness, sharing, love and happiness are a forever kind of thing — a perpetual honest feeling that comes straight from the heart, the soul. Now we all gift each other. We gift our family, our friends, our partners and whoever.
But have you ever thought of gifting lord Jesus on his birthday? I know one might think, like how am I supposed to gift him? Well, you can!
If you can provide some food for the poor. There’s Christmas. If you can provide a little meal or even a packet of biscuits for a street pooch, there’s Christmas. If you can gift a child with a book, there’s Christmas. If you can sacrifice all your hard work and busy schedule to join your family, to spend time with your parents, your loved ones — there’s Christmas. If you can be kind to yourself and others — there’s Christmas. If you can do all that and continue doing that every single day until the next Christmas — there will be Christmas everyday. And when there’s Christmas, you gift Jesus.
If you can share the little you have with someone who is deprived of it. I believe that’s the best gift you can give Jesus, to entire humanity; including yourself. Because when you do that, that brings real self-satisfaction. Not the smug kind of self-satisfaction, but the one connected with your inner self. The ones who already do that understands what I mean, and in case you don’t just give it a try and you’ll get precisely what I mean. ;)
Merry Christmas to you and yours, ahead! xx
