Microblog 2: The Worst Parts of Christmas
1. CHRISTMAS DOESN’T LAST FOREVER
Why not Christmas all the time? Too expensive, really. Perhaps the real moral here is that we should just always remember to celebrate the birth and life of Jesus? Maybe that’s too deep and unrealistic, but it’s at least not a bad idea!
2. CHRISTMAS REQUIRES YOU TO CONFRONT THE SELFISH/SELFLESS DUALITY OF MAN IN A WAY THAT PROVES TO BE DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE
What could be more uncomfortable than confronting your own self-centered depravity? Potentially, confronting someone else’s self-centered depravity. I think that Christmas can act as a sort of litmus test of sorts, causing a lot of people’s true natures to rise to the surface and be exposed, either privately or publicly. Some people use this to bask in their own pride and glorify themselves over others, whereas others will mask this, and some others will even just ignore it! Ultimately, I think that holidays like this dig out some real dirt from within us.
3. CHRISTMAS MAKES YOU FORGET THE STUFF YOU NEEDED TO GET DONE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR
Don’t get me wrong, I’m down for ending the year with celebrations, but I think that it actually makes it significantly harder to get a final wrap-up of the year done, especially for procrastinators… but not me… because I don’t procrastinate… I just do stuff when it needs to be done. Can’t relate.
4. CHRISTMAS REMINDS YOU OF HOW COSMICALLY SMALL YOU ARE IN LIGHT OF THE GLORY OF CREATION
For real, you can’t not feel like a small lil grain of salty white sand when you think about your little Christmas comparative to what Christmas is all about. Honestly, we are just small fellas bumbling our way through a series of mistakes and “glories” on the way to becoming maybe a little less bumbling than we were last year. It’s either inspiring or dreadful, and perhaps both. In light of the plan that spans thousands of years being actively executed for simple dust clumps like you and me, it’s hard not to feel both very small and yet somehow invaluable.
5. CHRISTMAS MAKES US FEEL LOVE THAT WE FEEL LIKE MAYBE WE DON’T DESERVE BECAUSE REALLY WE DON’T DESERVE IT
Benevolence has this uncanny ability to make genuine people feel humbled and undeserving of the care thrown their way. Seeing the care and attention that people give to us to make us feel loved, accepted, acknowledged and valued can really cause us to reconsider how we ought to view ourselves. It can make us wonder what we did or who we must be to deserve these things. Maybe that’s the point though. Maybe we don’t deserve it, and that’s why it’s called a gift. Maybe, just maybe this is a thought that I will be expanding into something much, much bigger.
Conclusion
Christmas is great and it makes me sad because of how much more Christmas is than just the holiday. I feel so insignificantly small and so extremely loved at Christmas time, and honestly, those are some of the most uncomfortable emotions for me to reconcile. Maybe that’s why I love the worst things about it so much.
Thanks for not reading.
