12.23.05

What’s Christmas to You?

Posted in General at 7:46 pm by lanre

I will like to apologise to my very proffesional minded collegues and hope that they will find this an interseting read. I just had this urge to share my thoughts with others and hope that they will share theirs with me too.

When I was a toddler I used to see Xmas as an opportunity to feast and get new shoes and cloths. I am from Lagos, Nigeria you see. And it was fun visiting families and friends christians and muslims alike during this time eating from one home to the other and believe it or not we used to even get tips (for a lack of better word to discribe this) for visiting and the more the money given, the better the chance of that household to see me next year.

But now with my wide knowledge and understanding of other cultures, I realised that although in all it is fun and relaxing -thank God for holidays- the origin of it was with Jesus Christ. It is a mass to celebrate the humble birth of Jesus in the manger. It is actually a mass to celebrate the birth of Christ. Although now there is no mass for me to attend, I think in the mist of the eating and drinking we still need to remember whose birthday this holiday is to celebrate.

It came as a shock to me when I first learnt that the 25th of December was not the day he was born and as such there are other christmas days depending on your christian faith or even no celebration at all if you are a Jehovah Witness. I think I will rather have a christmas than not have it at all.

If you read this blog. It will be nice if you can take the time to just share what christmas means to you and if you chose not to the choice is yours I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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