Random thoughts from a one track mind

Christmas

As I sat there on the stairs tonight, looking at you playing and eating (my God, a vegetable!) a carrot, it made me wonder... I know you're far too young to really understand the whole concept of Christmas. The disinterest you show in the presents stacked under the tree is proof enough of that, though I suspect that aspect will change shortly enough.

But what I got to wondering was what will you cherish about the Christmas season? What traditions will you hold within you as meaning "Christmas" when you get older and start making your own choices in all things.

Looking back at what to me is Christmas and what those things are which I take with me, I have trouble finding much of anything anymore. And that which I can find within me, isn't necessarily positive. I mean, there was the dining room table, loaded with food we weren't allowed to touch for weeks. There were the drunk relatives crowding the living room and making more noise than an armoured column on a steel road (and belching slightly more smoke too). There was hiding out in the basement hoping that no one would realize I'd sneaked off, and hoping that there'd be a good movie on TV (the best year was the first viewing I had of the '33 King Kong when they all pretty much ignored me too). Oh that, and opening a present, to "help cut the excitement", and that one year my sister and I picking that oh so strange one from Aunt Jean was it? And it turned out to be a Bugs Bunny toothpaste dispenser. Man was that a let down I can tell you.

So what, my little man, will you take with you? Will you be acting out your 3d blog in 25 years and saying "I have no Christmas traditions" (or at least none you really care to perpetuate)? I guess, really, I can look at this as an opportunity to start fresh. A chance to let whatever develops develop and so we can do what we come to enjoy, love and cherish, rather than carry on simply to carry on.

Yes, I think that's much better. Let us set forth, my son, and we can see where the path takes us. We can together, set out those things which we want and which will make us happy to do and see and perpetuate.

Merry Christmas

posted by HPL (eh pea ell) @ 8:42 PM