Tis the season to be jolly?

 

Another year is about to end thus marking the start of another christmas. What do you usually think when you hear the word ‘Christmas’? Is it the presents you get under the tree? Or the bright and colorful lights and decorations surrounding your home and neighborhood? Is it the chilly air that hits your face? Or it’s the meal you and your family share together? The holidays you go on? Or is it the birth of Christ that comes to mind? Whatever it is you during this holiday, everyone celebrates Christmas their own way.

All around the world, everyone celebrates Christmas, other cultures have reasons to  celebrate it. For us here in the Philippines, we celebrate it because it is the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. We go to church almost every other day to pray and celebrate. Family and friends have parties and large amounts of food for everyone to feast on, for family members overseas, they come home to celebrate it in their hometown and the family they haven’t seen all year.

 

Unfortunately, this year is the same as last year. When the COVID-19 struck, everyone was forced to stay in their homes to avoid contracting the virus. It dampened the holiday mood as everyone wasn’t able to enjoy the season. However, this year for other countries, they are able to go out with their family and friends, but for some they are still stuck home.

 

Families who are working overseas are unable to go home as they are stuck in quarantine or was not allowed in the country, while there are those who lost their jobs and wasn’t able to supply their family with basic needs such as food, water or a roof over their heads, thus leaving them homeless and starving.

 

Despite the problems that face our way, we are still able to rise up and push through all these challenges. Those who are away and are unablt to go home for the holidays are able to facetime their loved ones, although they are not here physically, you are still able to contact them. For those who lost their jobs, they are funded and given donations from the generous donaters and the government.

 

Although this Christmas may be different, we are able to overcome these challenges, if we work together, after all, wasn’t Christmas about the spirit of giving?

References:

500+ Merry Christmas Pictures obtained December 4, 2021 https://unsplash.com/s/photos/merry-christmas

Holiday gatherings are not worth it during COVID-19

https://www.videtteonline.com/viewpoint/editorial-holiday-gatherings-are-not-worth-it-during-covid-19/article_6ccfd092-29db-11eb-9fb0-3fbbb208748a.html