A friend of mine on FaceBook was saying the other day she is
inviting people to her house on Christmas day who have no family or nowhere to
go to. Isn’t that so very selfless? Every year I say the same thing. I feel so
sad for those of you who are alone at this time of year. I can say Bloggets, it’s
one day of the year. But it’s not, is it? It’s the lead up. In the work place
everyone talking about where they are going before Christmas and on the big day
itself. People with families to visit friends coming around. Talk of food preparation
and so on. If you are on your own, how heart-breaking will that be to hear? I can
only hope that one day you too will have someone special in your life. I know
of people in their seventies who have met late in life. It’s never too late,
but you know what? I also know of a lady who has never been married and she has
no one. She tells me she is fine and she enjoys having the time to do what she wants
to do on the day. She eats what she wants but doesn’t have a Christmas dinner, instead,
she gives the Salvation Army the money she would spend on a dinner. Just kindness.
Now whether it’s all bravado and really, she gets up on the 25th,
and sinks into her stomach feeling devastated she has no one to share her day
with, I don’t know. I hope not, I hope she has been able to teach her mind how
to be positive at that time of year. It’s a day, a date that is talked so much
about. At least now days there is more chance to work on that day.
As a child my Christmas’s were so dreamy. Beautiful coloured
lights. Multi coloured baubles. The brightest most magical colours and pictures
that looked like Victorian paintings depicted on paper that wrapped around gifts
of plenty. Father Christmas’s with the whitest beards and bright shiny red
coats. Always smiling, red cheeks used to pop up above his beard. Dishes around
the house filled with sweet wrappers holding delicious chocolates and toffee’s!
Brazil nuts in shells with chrome nut
crackers again all polished, gleaming against the natural look of the nuts.
Our childhood fridge was overflown with foods things that
you really could only get at Christmas time. Dishes of little oranges, dark
velvet red French apples and pomegranates forming pyramids in my Mums best crystal
dish.
My big brother would help me each year to put together my
toys and games. Everything had the most amazing colours. The smells of home the
dreams a child should always experience.
And in those days, there were foods that you could only get
at Christmas time. Whereas now days you can get anything any time. It was more
special when we had to wait, don’t you think? Now we take things for granted. Just
as you may take your families and friends for granted. Appreciate them as there
are people who have no one. But remember too, sometimes people have a house
full of people and still feel so very alone. Seriously Bloggets, you can be in
a room there will be laughter. Old Grand pops is wearing his silly paper hat Aunt
morg is insisting you dance with her and Granny Anny is chasing you for that annual
hairy lip kiss… Yep that tash from the past. Small children play with their
latest toys and then there is you. So, remember that life isn’t always what you
imagine it to be.
For
some people this year will be the first without their loved ones. They won’t
not just see them for Christmas, but they will never see them again. For others
that person who has been in their lives forever won’t be this year even though
they are still alive and well. For some people this may really be a time they
are dreading, for others we shall enjoy every second we have with those we
love. We are the lucky ones. Again, as I say every year, your neighbour who you
may just wave to as you pass them, take note, who will visit them this year? Why
not pop to their house with a plate of home-made biscuits or a cake bought at
the shop? A card a smile your kindness will mean more to them than a diamond
ring will mean to a lot of recipients this year.
If you are going to your shop why not as your neighbour or
work colleague if there is anything they need? Or, even better, do they need a
lift anywhere? One hour of kind thoughts, you will be the best gift possible and
no money can buy that!
3 comments:
Beautiful thoughts. Yes it’s a time fior giving and sharing your time.
Oranges? French apples? Is that like ‘toffee apples’? Pomegranates? We have a lovely salad that my daughter (also Fi) makes, with pomegranate thru it. A new thing to me. Thanks Fi.
Thank you so much French apples are thick skinned apples they are very dark red. Thank you for reading take care and have a lovely weekend X
My mum called them That, but they are probably Called something else xx
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