Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings .... even if you do not commemorate or celebrate Christmas, there is a high likelihood today that you are linked with at least someone somewhere who does. If you have the house decorated it is less likely a lot of time and energy will be spend in honoring the birth of Jesus Christ and chances are even more remote that you are aware of how Saint Nikolaas' legacy has come to blend into all this.
It does not really matter. What's important is that all of us take a moment every now and then to stop and think about whom and what is around us and in that respect I am a true believer that as long as we do hold someone in our memory, they do live on.
It is then thrilling, maybe even powerful, if we all do so more or less at the same time. I guess we have a need or strong desire to do so.
To some extent it bothers me that a couple of hands full of temporarily elected or otherwise appointed politicians claim attention to lecture entire populations on what should unite in this time of the year, as if their mandates included some spiritual proxy, whereas arguably the majority are in an urgent need for withdrawing to a moment of zen or redemption to reflect upon their actions, in a way just as much of most common people tend to do, before the turn of another year.
Whether we accept it or not, we are all agents in our environments. What we say and especially what we do comes upon others in one way or another, consciously or not.
This world is still relatively new to observing mere citizens getting things done, without the interference of any protagonist. The people that rise and shine every day, do their work whether GDP measured or not, care for their children and the elderly and make doing good seem so simple whereby others feel onboarded.
This Christmas I will take a moment and salute all those people in the middle of their societies, capable and willing to make a difference not just for themselves or within their boundaries. I just might feel tempted to do so throughout 2015 and beyond. Sound jolly enough ?
