My Second Thought on Xmas Celebration

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists - Nikola Tesla

 

Many Christmases have come and gone and heavens did not fall. The heavenly bodies are still intact; the galaxies, cosmic and planetary forces still moving at its pace, while the earth has never stopped rotating on its axis. The days, 25th and 26th December, come and go like every other day.

But the type of frenzy that we human beings exhume at the preceding days of Xmas is nonetheless worrisome. Many have died untimely because of ‘Christmas’, others are in police cells and prisons because of Christmas, while many more will still lose their lives, in avoidable deaths, because of Xmas.

Many ladies have abandoned their husbands and true loves because of Xmas, while most government officials have looted the treasury dry during the period.

There is nothing wrong with the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - more so the succeeding end of year, but there should be a limit to what we subject our peace over mundane things.  The increasing quest for materialism and the urge to make quick money, that we couldn’t make for the past eleven months, should be tamed.

It will do our soul a good deal if we can just live our normal lives during the yuletide. Remember, just like the world acclaimed ‘mad’ genius, Nikola Telsa, said above, it takes intelligence not to join a world full of conformists.

 Merry Xmas and Happy New year in Advance!