to Dr. Suess “Christmas doesn’t come from a store, perhaps it’s about a little more”. As adults, toys or material things from the store no longer thrills us. As adults, we are more bothered with what to prepare during the holiday season, we become responsible for the gifts, the food, and most importantly the joy of the children. Maybe, Christmas didn’t change after all. It’s still the same lovely and joyful Christmas. Perchance, it’s our roles in life during this season that have changed. Yuletide is and will always be a season for kids, and we can’t deny, we ain’t forever young. Before we used to have a Santa, now, we have to be the Santa. Yes, we now carry a different responsibility, a more serious and heavy one, but Christmas regardless of our age is the same as the first day we learned to celebrate it. Indeed, we human beings may change in time, but Christmas is evergreen. EC
Growing up is tough, regardless of how one’s story is written, the struggle will always be there. It’s inevitable. Time alone may have nothing to do with our viewpoints in life and the holiday season, but our collective experiences throughout time may have affected our vision. The ambiance of Christmas changed for us because perhaps we ourselves have changed. If you no longer look forward to new toys or things anymore, but instead you now look forward to making others happy, then, we are on the same stand. Time and life made us realize the truth of Christmas, it was never always about cupcakes and rainbows. We no longer looked forward to receiving gifts, because we became more concerned about being able to give. We no longer thirst for material things for ourselves, because seeing the genuine joy in someone else’s face has been enough for us and according
Little did we know, Christmas is not like how we viewed it when we were younger, Christmas is now different, and somehow we got our childhood ruined because all along, Christmas isn’t just about happiness, it may also contain sadness. Did Christmas change over time? Or time changed us which now affects our point of view towards Christmas. A lot of people, via social media, said that Christmas feels different in their age now and most of them are people in adolescence and adulthood. They say, “seems like the spirit of Christmas is no longer bright, maybe Christmas changed”, and for a second, there’s this thought: What if it really changed? Christmas was no longer as exciting as before, we no longer received bunches of gifts. Seems like people are becoming less “giving”? Maybe, or perhaps because we became less content with material things.
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