Dec 09
it’s 15 days before Christmas..
and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.. LOLjk
Seriously, it’s 15 days ‘till the bearded one comes crashing down your chimney and leave gifts and.. oh wait, we have no chimneys here, hmm
We all know Christmas is the ‘season of giving’, shopping for gifts for your friends and loved ones. This part I know well, besides the customary “buying gifts for your loved ones” I’ve been the one funding the Christmas and New Year dinners for the last 4 years, understandable if you’re the breadwinner of the family and all. I actually enjoy shopping for the groceries, going through the mall sales and scouring the infinite number of bazaars around Manila. I even consider it therapeutic even if I’m haggling for an item or two for the whole shopping trip.
Christmas is also the season when we receive gifts from others. Not those most-of-the-time-compulsory-monito-monita-exchange-gift-thingamajigs, no, heck I always get pulled into those stuff and shit. I mean the little trinkets and stuff that you scour the malls and bazaars for or perhaps even you yourself make to make it even more special for them.
But alas, I haven’t experienced that latter part yet for the last, errr i don’t know 5, 6 years? I don’t want to sound selfish and stuff but a gift, even just a simple gift made heartwarming because it was made or bought specifically with you in mind, that would be freaking awesome! Like making you all warm and fuzzy and Christmas-y inside like those Xmas station IDS!
Yeah, I kinda miss that part of Christmas. I tend to release my frustrations on that elsewhere, going to the gym, doing sports or just celebrating the Christmas by being all jolly and stuff. Or I just think to myself that it’s good to be the one doing the giving, making others happy this Yuletide season and I just feed off the happiness they exude and all. But there’s a little nagging corner inside me, like a little boy waiting for the how manieth Christmas eve, eagerly waiting for that box covered in fancy paper and tied with a red ribbon all around..
That or I just didn’t have a childhood, idk.. Christmas rant?
