Do not continue reading if you are one of those who considers that the best time of the year is the one that coincides with these weeks. Because if you are passionate about perfume and nougat advertisements, enjoy crowded streets and put elk antlers on your car as well as wear a red woolen sweater with the face of Santa Claus, this article is not for you.
On the other hand, if you have already gone into grumpy mode because you can’t stand so much waste of lights in the streets, traffic jams at all hours because of damn shopping or you start to somatize how little you like these Christmas dinners With the brothers-in-law determined to clear out the neighborhood’s entire stock of fireworks, you’ve come to the right place.
It’s not easy to face what’s coming because you hate these days, surely with good reason, since you miss the people you love and now the calendar reminds you of them even more. That’s how it is and you won’t stop feeling it, and you won’t stop feeling it either. If the coming consumerism scares you because you can’t afford it And what’s worse, you will see the sad faces of your children for not living up to what seems essential to being happy this season: spending and spending.
But during these Christmas weeks, there are things that will happen that will fly under your radar and I want to tell you about them because they are good -at least for me- and they can reconcile you with these days and, incidentally, with yourself. Children will laugh – more than any time – at everything, whether it’s a playground, a horseback ride or meeting cousins. Older people also feel accompanied and loved even if it is once a year.
Cream roscones will continue to be best sellers, no matter their quantity. panettones figurines of the baby Jesus are displayed in grocery stores. The lottery will make us dream for a few minutes of December 22waking up that day with the children of San Ildelfonso playing in the background will make even the most beautiful person wince with happiness. The cold on the face after hours of traveling in an overheated car, bus or train; the quiet of the living room when everyone leaves after Christmas Eve dinner; the bed with clean sheets at your mother’s house; gift socks that you are happy to wear for the first time because they don’t fall off the first time you put them on; old friends even if they are old and heavy; walking the streets you walked as a child and left in search of another future.
And above all, a message hidden among so many gift boxes and garlands, which is none other than We celebrate the birth of a helpless child in absolute poverty in Bethlehem more than two thousand years ago to save humanity; that the weakest are those who can reach the strongest; Among the most powerless is the greatest lesson: we love one another.
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