What Christmas means to me.

By Claude December 7, 2008 33 Comments

I'm agnostic, so I'm a hypocrite right? I like Christmas. Not so... says the one, who lives between these ears. After a hard day working in the "Santa Hat Factory" and spreading good cheer and spirit, I started to think... What does Christmas mean to me?

I was reared to be a Christian in the U.S. South, but through life experience and just being a curious little fuck, I found my own path. Christmas is big in my family and for me, family is the key word in that phrase. I've read some history on Christmas and about the many ancestral voyages it has taken to become what it is today and it's become many different things for whole lot of people. 

I have a saying in my house and every year I say it with great joy and inflection. "This is going to be the best Christmas ever!" I've chopped down my  own Christmas Tree for the last 17 years, always cedar and always close to where I live. I start feeling a spirit come of over me, but sometimes things can go wrong. Car accidents, hospitalization and maybe, even a death in the family. I've seen it happen, but the good spirit of Christmas always comes creeping back in.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

I often think about the Christ in Christmas and being

agnostic, I have my own views of him and have no problem... no beef with him. As for the ones who use "The Word" for precautionary tales and personally attack me, well there in lies a problem. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, but like a troll, you must let them go and let the Mods of life keep an eye on them.





I like receiving PRESENTS and I like giving PRESENTS. Other than family, this is my second most enjoyable part of Christmas. The giving and receiving of gifts are along the same lines as the  "Spirit Of" that is Christmas for me.



There are other reasons, memories, traditions but those are the main two and so, Christmas has decided to make yet another appearence on this earth. With my own heart in hand, I will journey to the families that love me most and we will receive and give each other the good spirit that is Christmas.

Here's to you GiantBomb, in my best politicly correct voice. "Happy Holidays"  

   

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