I don’t know about the readers who will read this, but there are as many sad people at Christmas as there are happy ones, maybe you are one of the sad ones. Hopefully not.
A Sad Time of the Year
Is it just me or is Christmas a sad time of the year? I haven’t had a traditional Christmas since learning that Santa didn’t exist, and that’s many years ago. Years ago, just after coming to live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, I was in a large shopping center one Christmas eve night, and I saw a man, I thought at the time, ready to commit suicide. He was standing on a railing about 50 ft in the air. Not wishing to have an even worse Christmas, I left that man to do whatever he was going to do and I went home.
How many single people live alone with no Christmas tree, no lights for that tree they don’t have, and how many more won’t eat Turkey because they didn’t have enough money to buy a Turkey?
For some strange reason when people break up it seems to happen before Christmas or just after Christmas, and before the New Year starts. I wonder why we humans do such things as break up with someone before such a spirited time as Christmas and New Year?
Years ago in Montreal, there used to be lots of fires because wouldn’t you know it, the Firemen and Women would choose that time of year to go on strike.
If it wasn’t the Fire Department it was the Postal Offices, just around Christmas and close enough that if one were expecting mail forget it, there’d be no mail delivery between Christmas and New Year because of strikes.
How many families are torn apart because of Alcohol and or Drugs and or a Daddy or a Mommy, who has a gambling addiction, and the last thing on his/her mind is getting home with Christmas presents.
Christmas isn’t what it used to be years ago. Today it’s far too commercialized; too many Santa’s for it to be real, and today most kids know the difference before they hit ten. It’s kind of sad when you think about it. Christmas is supposed to be for the children and the many stores are wearing it thin, with advertising just after Halloween. Why not give Christmas back to the kids, where it belongs and then everyone, or almost everyone could have a very Merry Christmas.
Paul Faulkenham December 8,2009
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