What is Christmas? What is the significance of this day? These questions bug me every now and then. They say that Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial event. People around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and earthy in nature. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion. Popular habits include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family and friends and, of course, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive. But is this the real importance of Christmas? When you ask a child, what is Christmas for him; maybe he might say that is about party and gifts. As of now, children usually think of material things about it. But not only children think this way but also older people. Most of the time older people affect the children perception about it. The essence of Christmas somehow fades because of their earthy frame of mind. What make them happy are the things they get from this occasion. On the other hand, there are still some people looks Christmas as time of thank-giving, forgiving, and loving everyone around them. This is the time of peace and care. This is the real importance of Christmas to spread love and understanding, to give what you think is worthy for other without waiting for a return token.
What if you would encounter someone who’s selling Christmas? Selling Christmas? Maybe you are wondering about that. But what would you do? As a future educator, how would you handle that kind situation? How would you establish the real essence of Christmas to those children? How would you convince them that material thing can’t buy the true happiness of this occasion? But before that let’s define, what is Christmas for sale? This is an action where people seem to be materialistic. For them, Christmas is about gifts and presents that the can get from this celebration. They can get satisfaction from those things.
For me, as a future educator I will be one of the guidance of these students to change their mind setting about Christmas and material things. I will tell them that Christmas is al matter of sacrifices and the joy you can give to others. It’s not about what you get but then it’s about what can you give. Emotional satisfaction is more fulfilling than material things. If you can learn how to appreciate things and be thankful of what you have, at the end you would say that Christmas is in our heart not in our eyes. Things fade but memories still remain. The essence of Christmas is love not want.
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