A season where a jolly environment and a beautiful spirit is all around!
When people ask me "What does Christmas mean to you?" (only one person has ever asked me this question) I really don't know what to say to them because it's loads of good, great & positive things mixed all in one. That in itself is a very good explanation of what Christmas is and means to me but at the same time it's not enough... I can say that it is that mix of a lot of great things but so are other times of year, like Halloween and Easter! So how can one explain the meaning of Christmas?...
Christmas may have different meanings to different people and that is great! For me Christmas is that time of year when you just feel good about everything, even when you're having a bad day. This might not happen to everyone and I know it doesn't but for me it is like this.
The things that just make this time of year feel so magical are the wheather (not everyone likes the rain and cold but I actually like them), the lights, the movies & the music, the jolly spirit that everyone gets into, the magic in the air, the amazing food, the fact that it is so close to another yearly favourite of mine, New Year, which makes it a lot more exciting as you're in that spirit for basically the entire month of December and the beggining of January... All these things!
It's really hard to describe Christmas in a sentence and it's also hard to describe it in a long text... the words just don't come properly and the sentences get all messed up - at least in my head. So if someone asks me, ever again, what the meaning of Christmas is I'm just gonna send them to this blog post as writting seems to make it a lot easier to describe.
My favourite part of Christmas, which I've not yet talked about is giving and sharing with my loved ones! I come from a family with mixed cultures so I never experienced Christmas in it's proper way... My mum's side of the family is Christian, so they celebrate Christmas but my father's side of the family is Muslim which means they don't celebrate Christmas as it's not part of their culture. So when my father married my mum and specially when me and my sister were born, he had to adjust to my mum's family cultural traditions... so he started celebrating Christmas. For him it does not have the same meaning that is has for me or my mum's family and I'm totally okay with that... but at the same time it's quite hard because Christmas is such a special season and such a big part of my life and so for me it should be celebrated properly...
Because this season isn't that meaningful to my father we sometimes don't decorate the house, we don't have a Christmas tree, we kinda have the tradition to do the Christmas shopping in a rush and just to get it done... All of these things make me feel quite gutted, we are not celebrating Christmas the way I always imagined and wanted to...
When it comes to my mum's side of the family things are not that great either, even though they are Christians. It's not that they're bad but it's still not my picture of the perfect Christmas. But although it is not my ideal way to celebrate this amazing holiday, I am still very happy to celebrate it. Every year I get in this mood and spirit, I always try to look at the positive side of things, I always try to encourage my family to decorate the house, to go get a tree, to do the Christmas shopping like it's meant to be done, with love and a lot of thought behind.
That for me is the true meaning of Christmas: Sharing the precious moments of this holiday with your loved ones and giving joy to them, whether that is through getting them some of their favourite things for Christmas or making them something really thoughtful or just spending Christmas day with them.
Christmas is not about the presents, it's not just an excuse to spend money on trees and decorations, it's not an excuse to get a few days off school or work - when we were all younger we might have thought that Christmas was all about the school break, the food and the presents but we were kids...
Christmas is all about loving, caring, sharing, giving!
Someone once said to me that Christmas shouldn't be about sharing and giving because those things should happen every single day of every single month of every single year. I totally agree with that! But Christmas is more of a season where you remember to do those things even more... not all people remember to love, care, give and share at all times but who does really?! (We're humans and we're not completely selfless at all times...).
So this magical season is a time where you take a break from everything and you just concentrate on you, your friends and family, your pets - if you have them - and you give all the love and appreciation you have inside of you.
And that, for me, is the meaning of Christmas! Four little verbs: love, care, share, give!
If you've read everything on this post comment down below and give me your meaning of Christmas.
I hope you have a good day, a great December and a fantastic Christmas!!!
A Very Happy & Merry Christmas To Every Single One Of You!
Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥ ❄ ♥ ❄
