Christmas This Year

i was just brought to realisation that christmas is just next tuesday. in camb, people start to get all christmas-y by the 6th week of term, perhaps as a source of comfort and drive to last till the end of term.

hence, christmas seems like a far, faraway day that everyone awaits for so eagerly but never actually arrives. in the last week of michaelmas,college events were just about christmas bops and christmas formals, and the CF put up two christmas events. people talked about what to do before christmas, where to go for christmas, how to spend christmas over and over again. all the hype about christmas coming is just now going to end so abruptly on tues when christmas day is finally here.

i had my fair share in the christmas merry-making. and since coming back from barcelona, i had christmas songs streaming through the internet radio to be my companion whenever i had to work alone in my room. oh those tunes were angelic, especially if they were played by kenny g. sometimes i thought i would just cry listening to them.

i will be in the alps this christmas, so it will my first true white christmas. it will also be the second christmas in consecutive years without a carol service by the church choir and without the early morning christmas service. it is not that i have to be physically present in a church to remember the true meaning of christmas; it is the familiarity that i miss.

should i try to seek familiarity in the new? or should i just come to terms with the unfamiliarity of the present moment, and of many more moments to come?



i would prefer the former.

have a blessed christmas!