Well another Christmas draws to a close. The long built up hype over in a matter of hours. Dinner cooked and eaten, presents exchanged and now silence. In a house where I spent my first Christmas at the young age of four not much has certainly changed.
People have arrived and departed the world. We have all grown older, yet within these four walls Christmas still feels the same. I remember when I was young the build up to Christmas would seem like an eternity. From the moment, the television commercials for toys started in October and was almost like a two month count down until we wrote our letters to Santa. I guess children simply e-mail these days.
From the annual present quest (my parents were very good at hiding them) to the writing of Christmas cards to all your school friends, Christmas just felt like an eternity back then. These days it is more of a relief almost when you sit down at night with those who are still awake, a drink in one hand watching a rerun of a comedy show from years ago or a movie premier that you can so easily rent.
Yet whilst the times and presents have evolved, the real magic is spending time with family and friends who know you as well as you know yourself. Christmas days are not eternal, they will be a lonely meal one day so what better way to spend the most precious time of the year than surrounding yourself with those that mean the most to you.
Christmas can be a difficult time for us, yet it can also be the most magical. No matter what happens in life it is days like these that we will look back on in our old age with fond memories and a smile on our face. So it’s laptop down, Ipad away, and I am off to watch some awful movie with my parents.
