HO HO HOLY Christmas

Its the most wonderful time to be jolly, thankful, happy and fat;D It is Christmas time!

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Merry Christmas everyone! You probably just finished your third Christmas dinner and while trying to digest grandma's christmas pudding, you think of how happy you are that you are wearing that wide, big Christmas sweater that gives your body the chance to get pleasantly plumped.

Listening to George Michael's Last Christmas, I think of how peculiar it is that the Wham! singer with the golden voice died exactly on the first day of Christmas 2016, as if it was meant to be. Maybe he died of a broken heart, while singing: 'last christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away'. We will never know. What I know is that that song will forever be my ultimate Christmas song.

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You know what is strange? That we all think we are so individualistic and original in how we are, but that we all listen to the same Christmas songs over and over again, have the same rituals of rushing to buy gifts, building up a christmas tree with the same annoyance every year about the falling needles, while eating piles of food while thinking about our intentions for the new year. It is one big ritual, a transition ritual.

Some people point to religious people as being traditional and conservative, because they would be too strictly holding on to habits and rules. But please lets take a look at ourselves... imagine that Christmas (in the form of gifts and Santa) would be forbidden by the government, total anarchy would disrupt the country. Secular, non-religious people are as stuck to their own traditions as are religious people. We are all the same.

Listen to our statements on Facebook and in Christmas cards: may your days be filled with joy, may they be healthy, happy, wonderful... may you have a wonderful christmas... have happy holidays. People believe Christmas should be good and miraculous; that if you don't have a happy christmas, it's terrible. So basically we 'secular' people, raised the Chrismas holidays above all other days and made them a little 'holy'...not based on a Bible or other holy book, but based on an ideology of commercialism and an idea of 'modernism' (to be happy is to have family, wealth, a nice and cozy house, a lot of gifts etc).

In that sense we also don't differ that much from the tribes in New Guinea and the Amazon with their transition rituals and gift exchange or from the Indian culture with its' potlucks to mark important events, and while many Westerners feel so much more 'civilized' then them, they are actually performing the same rituals, packed in a different gift wrap.

My Christmas message to you is that there is no need to think that we Westerners are so different than others. It is time to think about unity, about sharing and about living together without feeling threatened by the other. (doesn't this sound religious? I told you, non-religious and religious, we are all the same).

To be continued...

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