Ain’t no jolly old St Nick
December 22, 2009
I wonder where did all that spirit of Christmas go to, i lost it probably somewhere in between my virginity and a patella/ligament injury.
Sharing the same birthday as St Nick(a.k.a Santa Claus) really doesn’t cut it out nowadays, considering that the past 3 Christmases have been basically spent wallowing in self-pity, in and out of army, or just the bare fact that nothing or no one has bothered to really organise anything.
It seems that i have succumbed to the dreaded feel that Xmas is nothing more than a public holiday for me to sit back and relax, go to church for my quarterly trip down guilty lane and and wonder exactly when did all that excitement just fizzle out and fade away. Somehow it seems that being in the supposed righteous religion to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ is nothing but an obligation rather than a treat.
Truth is, i haven’t bought a Xmas present for anyone for say, the past 3 years. Yea not even my family, the family that used to come together to hang up the Xmas tree, dig up old remnants of Xmas lights that only had 60% of them working, the family that could never open the present until boxing day and the family that went for supper journeys after every midnight mass on X’mas eve. Somehow along the way practicality came in, practicality in the sense of buying a present just didn’t quite cut it out, especially if one will do nothing but leave it at a side after a while, we’d just become another lazy consumer in the bloated market of commercial success. See what life does to you
Maybe i need to go to New York, heck even Jerusalem to actually reignite whatever little passion i even have left for Christmas because it used to be my only solace save for Chinese New Year each and every year.
I don’t even hear an X’mas song in my head at the moment, the only Rudolph i saw was after some Happy Pizza in Vietnam and the only relation i probably have with St Nick is the ho-ho-ho of a belly.
Well. merry x’mas to anyone and everyone who actually celebrates it.
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