Most all of us, despite our putdowns of the season, manage to struggle along with the one day of Christmas which is forced down our throats each year, whether it is our overzealous admen or our loved ones, reminding us of that special something they sure would like us to buy them for that Dec. 25th opening of the gifts.
This is a beautiful season though, with the nippy weather, the magnificent display of cheery decorations, the romanticism of snuggling up by a fireplace, and it is our hope that some part of it — whether if it’s just some mechanical Muzac pumping a tinny Christmas Carol into an elevator — will take you back to that wonderful time in your childhood when, sleepy-eyed, you rushed into the living room to find that gleaming red bicycle beneath an overly-tinsel tree, and ate nothing all day but turkey and candy, and did nothing besides eat and throw snowballs because school was out for two weeks.
The Christmas season, with its many faults, certainly does have much to offer, as anyone will admit after careful examination of the situation. It is the one time of the year when most all families were able to get together, when many friendships are deepened, and when some of your most cherished memories are etched onto your mind.
It is the time when enemies are forgiven, grudges set aside, violence subsides a bit. All this, and more, should be considered before totally lambasting the Christmas lights which have been up at Oaklawn Village since just after Halloween.
Christmas, coming at the end of the year as it does, is probably the sole reason that we are able to look optimistically into the coming year. For despite all the woes of the world, when New Year’s Day rolls around, the most recent thing in memory is Christmas together with the joy it brings. It kind of makes it all worth while, doesn’t it?