Christmas, today it is the day…a day where every Christians are celebrating a new born king, the Savior, Jesus Christ. Even though I am a Christian, I don’t really celebrate this special day. Born in a Chinese family, I was raised up without particular religion roots, but my parents always teach me ‘yin guo’ principle. They believe you will gain by what your doing now. If you want something good happen to you, you have to do something good too. I grew up with a strong belief in this. As most Chinese boys in my hometown, I was sent to a Catholic school for 13 years, learning about Catholic for 13 years and then I was baptized as a Christian. I might be not very religious, but I still believe in what my parent taught me since I was a little kid and I also believe in GOD whatever THY manifestation.
Christmas is just like another day to me, but of course it’s in different mood because of the Christmas visualizations in shopping malls, Christmas carols and hedonism of urban citizens, included myself. People are more into the Christmas celebrations in term of party and consumerism, instead of essential of the Christmas itself.
The night before, I went to Christmas-eve mass. The church was packed by urban-ians from every corner in town, dressed the best to celebrate the Christmas. I was surprise with the crowd, but just in a blink…things turn out ironically. People were busy with their own…blackberried, messaged and chatted or even targeted on some eye candies. They all missed the essential of the celebration itself... After all, it left a thought in me, do people these days still know the essential of Christmas or are they invented by the hedonism and consumerism of Christmas?
Have yourself a splendid and joyous Christmas…real or fake, you choose.
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