Holiday Thought...
Well here it
is another Thanksgiving come and gone with Christmas hurrying around the corner
like Lance Armstrong on an anabolic high and New Years’ soon to be just another
memory before we even have time to put away the funny looking pointy party
hats.
The Holiday
season often seems to drag out getting here but once Turkey day arrives it’s an
all out sprint to January One and if you get too caught up in the whirlwind
rush of festivity preparation it becomes all too easy to miss out on the
importance of these get-togethers to begin with.
Now I don’t
mean to get off on a rant here and I certainly know better than to weigh in on
any of the religious overtones that tend to be so closely associated with this
Holiday time of year. I’m a bit older now which goes without saying, we all
are. Unfortunately older doesn’t mean wiser –at least not in my case apparently
(-or at any rate that’s what younger folks seem to want to point out, but hey
they’re “younger” so what the hell do they know anyhow).
What I’m
trying to say is that we need to make sure to take the time, especially during
the Holidays, to take stock in what’s really important to us, and, by that, I
mean turkey, presents, Lance Armstrong and of course pointy party hats. Now I
know that some of you are thinking, “Hey, wait a minute, sure I like pointy
party hats as much as the next guy but really don’t you think that we should
take some time here…some real quality time that is, and celebrate what it is
that we mean to one another…that we should try to embrace the terrific
fellowship of family and friends that the yuletide spirit so powerfully
evokes?”
Pullllease,
really? Are not these the people from
who we so gladly seek to escape throughout the very year that is drawing down
to a close as we speak? The long hours that we spend at work or focused in deep
reflection at our computer screens perusing the most recent and evidently
completely engrossing Facebook spackle seems to support this hypothesis. We
wash our cars, shine our shoes, iron our clothes and spend altogether too long
(some of us) prepping ourselves after showering in order to please who?
Ourselves. Our bosses. Our neighbor’s opinions of us perhaps. Certainly we don’t exercise these measures
for the select purpose of demonstrating our love of family or our commitment to
close friends, both of these exclusive groups of people know each of us well
enough to call b#@%*&+t on any of the paltry tricks that we may utilize in
order to draw attention to our outerselves without really disclosing what it is
that our tricky nougaty inner-center actually portrays.
The Holidays
somehow get us altogether too caught up in the flashy symbolism of festive decoration. The planning and shopping and ribbon knotting
that seem to misrepresent the core of what it is that we should really be
celebrating. Family, Friends, (Faith if you have it). The three F’s, and two
out of three truly ain’t bad in this case.
Let’s don’t forget the folks that got you “Here”
from this time last year to where you are figuratively at least today. Celebrate
the emotional ties that helped to nurture and create the package that is You
today as you hunt for and cherrypick packages for the special people whose
lives you’ve deemed so worthy this Holiday Season.
…Oh and do
be careful with the Pointy Party Hats~
A good reminder of what and who is really important. You are always there, my sweet big brother, to help me to remember to celebrate and notice the seemingly small moments that so often get overlooked and are perhaps the real meat in this life. The moment of shimmering excitement in a child's face or the joy we may feel hearing our loved ones laugh, even if it is at our funny pointed party hats!
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