Transform Christmas (Christmas Story)
Today I want to invite you to reflect on the true value of Christmas with the tale “Transforming Christmas”, in which a little boy reminds us that it is important to be grateful for all we have, even if we don’t think you have a lot, and that you have to do it every day of the year, not on a single day.
At this time of the year, we are bombarded with advertisements on nougats, toys, perfumes… Everything indicates to us that Christmas has arrived, this wonderful (and dreaded) time of the year. The streets light up and a sort of collective madness invades us and invites us to buy compulsively, overcrowding closets and going out to buy gifts for everyone. But is that really the value of Christmas? Transforming Christmas is possible when we are able to look beyond the wrapping paper of the presents.
Transform Christmas
Little Oliver had just turned five and showed great curiosity about everything around him. He began to notice that everything was changing around him, that the streets filled with bright colors, that repetitive songs were heard from all sides, that the trees were decorated with objects of all types, that a lot of nougat advertisements , toys, perfumes were on TV … All this made Oliver wonder, and he ended up asking his mother aloud:
- Mom, what is Christmas?
- Christmas is something only lucky people can have. I hope to be able to offer it to you one day – answered his mother with a certain sadness.
Oliver felt sad at this response and at his mother’s expression, but he did not lose hope of getting lucky and living his own Christmas. Days passed and little Oliver continued to search. Christmas morning arrived.
Oliver got up very early and ran to wake his mother up. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that the little boy handed her a card made by hand from a reused sheet. But this card was beautiful, full of colors, designs and, above all, contained a message full of hope: “You give me Christmas every day because I feel happy with you”. Oliver’s mother began to cry. And the little boy asked:
- Why are you crying, Mom?
- Because I didn’t know how lucky I was until you showed it to me, Oliver’s mother said, hugging him.
- Yes Mom, Christmas is everyday for us.
Love, the most beautiful gift
Transforming Christmas is possible: that’s what little Oliver did with his innocence, paying attention to what was really important to him. His mother’s love was without a doubt the best possible gift for him. The little boy, like his mother, reminds us that sometimes we lose sight of what is really important and that we care about things that we cannot give to others, whether it is because we cannot afford them. or because we know there will be no reciprocity.
Maybe we just lose sight of what we already have and what we receive from other people. May be. There is no person richer than the one who is surrounded by people who love and appreciate him. And we all, absolutely all, at least one person who loves us and whom we love. Especially (why not?) At Christmas.
Our thoughts Christmas, that magical date both joyful and sad where we find our loved ones while thinking with nostalgia of those who are no longer there.
