Christmas is that time of the year when we share love, gifts, share moments, see faces we haven't seen in a long time, you know in our family every Christmas is like a ritual or some sort of family tradition and I know it's same all over the world, but I feel ours was some how different, because of the longing for it, then granny was still alive and as kids Christmas was everything, we would long for it, we would look out for December so that we can travel all the way to the village to spend time with our cousins and nephews and niece ours was such an extended family so every Christmas feels like a reunion of one big family.....
honestly speaking i really really miss Christmas as a child, i just miss this special moments, the freedom, I believed I truly understood the true essence of Christmas as a child than now, not because of the special treatment, the Christmas cloths and shoes and fancy stuff I get or maybe because of the things that comes with being an Adult no but because I feel times has really changed us
As a matter of fact it happened that the very year granny passed was the year it all broke loose, then I understood that what really unit everyone was grand ma, because of her all the grand and great grand children all over the country will converge at the big family house, one time we were so many there was barely space to contain all of us in the room.....
this was Christmas for me, the joy, of seeing everyone , of having a big house filled with everyone present, of laughter, playing, running around, eating together, I miss those times and I wish I can relive them again...
ever since grand ma passed, Christmas was no longer the same, we could skip a year or two without traveling for Christmas it was never like that, plus the burden of Adult hood,..
All of a sudden I felt civilisation has taken over the essential aspect of culture and traditions from us, Christmas now feels like taking a break from work, for a few days, truthfully speaking the feeling is not the same anymore, it's like we have outgrown our own tradition, we now barely have time, like to spend quality time with family and friends.
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I miss Christmas as a child and I wish I could rewrite the hands of time, but as the say Time waits for no one, as you can never step into the same river twice because the waters are always flowing and never stopping, that's how time is.
we grow we adapt and adjust to the new norm, I still enjoy the Christmas vibes with my family now but that child hood fantasy is gone and gone for ever....
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