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The NK Perspective: It is Christmas time and soon the New Year will beckon!

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“The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school”, said Alice Cooper, the American rock singer. Yes indeed, it is that time of the year, when, the air smells of cakes and bakes, the climate is cool and there are love and joy everywhere, not just under the mistletoe of the Christmas tree.  It is that time of the year when the evenings are pleasant, and every home is lit-up and radiant. Yes, it is that time of the year again.

It is Christmas time

Christmas, coming as close as it does to the dawn of a new year, is for many, a time to celebrate – to party, to marry, to network, to fine dine and generally be merry.  And that is how the ubiquitous greeting –‘Merry Christmas’ came to be.  But is that all that Christmas is about?

No, it is also about quality family time, when families split by geography, become whole again as they come together out of affection and coinciding holidays. They get the opportunity to again eat and pray together. They love, they care, and they share, in the true spirit of Christmas. 

It is that time of the year when memories are created that sustains life till death.

It is Christmas time

Childhood memories of Christmas are the most cherished ones.

An 84-year-old woman MS Pinto (name changed) says, “Christmas was great during childhood herein Mangalore (then) our family had a traditional lunch on the 25th of December every year, with lavish food and roasted turkey. She says children would play around and sweets were of so many varieties and all made at home. “However today things are different – her family still does have a traditional lunch, but she is no more invited -. She resides at an Old Age Home She has a kidney disorder and is bound to bed care, even as her family celebrates the grand event elsewhere – Perhaps, she is in their hearts and in their prayers however she is not with them.

She feels the Christmas in the air, every day, as her every physical, emotional and mental need has cared for, by the Institution’s staff.  She says, “There are so many people who have terrible lives – I am blessed to be in this home – loved and cared for so much. I would rather be here and live than die at home.”

As the carols play softly in the background at the home, inmates gather around, cheerful, playing games and talking to each other.

The apostle Paul said, “Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God, loves a cheerful giver”.

These principles are echoed in the activities of many institutions and personalities caring and sharing their love, time, resources with those who most need them – the aged, the destitute, the infirm in body and mind – not just during Christmas, but every day of every year.

The True Meaning of Christmas

As Thomas Monson said “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see the joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values”.

Yes, it is Christmas time, but this year, considering all that we have been through, let’s reframe our view of it…. for as Roy L. Smith, the American minister, when he said, “He who does not have Christmas in his heart, will never find it under a tree.”

Team newskarnataka.com wishes its readers A very merry but giving and forgiving Christmas!!!

And soon 2021 will dawn and we pray that it will put 2020 behind us in every way!

Image by Karolina Grabowska from Pixabay 

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Brian Fernandes

Brian is an alumnus of Roshni Nilaya’s Post Graduate School of Social Work, HR Department and has 30 years of local and international HR and General Management experience. Journalism, poetry, and feature writing is a passion which he is now able to pursue at will. Additionally, he loves compering and hosting talk shows. He loves learning and imparting it; so, when time permits, he provides leadership facilitation and soft skills training to Postgraduate students and Corporates in Mangaluru and Bengaluru. Besides, he is an accomplished Toastmaster under the aegis of Toastamasters.org and a designated Distinguished Toast Master.

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