Last Updated on December 25, 2018 by FERS Disability Attorney
Do We dread, or welcome them? Is it a season to which we look forward, or hope that they will quickly fade into memories best left forgotten? Is it to endure, tolerate, give a plastic smile to, or do we guffaw uproariously where our hearts flutter with sincere flushes of joyful tears?
On the other hand, must our emotions always be bifurcated into extremes of disjunctives? Must it be “Either/Or” (to borrow Kierkegaard’s Title to his opus magnum)? Can it not be some compromised “middle ground” where we enjoy certain parts of it, tolerate with indifference others, and leave the rest to the ash heaps of eternal drawers shuttering away in memories unrevealed?
The “Holidays” are a time of bustle; and though we complain of the “commercialism” of the modern era, we refrain and restrain ourselves because we know that, to do so is to be tagged a “Scrooge”; and so we quietly acquiesce, “go with the flow” and smile wanly as the world decorates itself in preparation for a single day in a time of multiple troubles.
But in the end, isn’t it nice to “make-believe?” For, there are always the tomorrows and the day after; the day before, and other times of mundane and common occurrences, and to celebrate one out of all of those “others”, even if tomorrow brings back the reality of tumults and memories of better yesterdays — still, through it all, it is nice to gather around and sing a Christmas carol, to light a candle, to bow in prayer for thanks and wishes.
In the end, it is — after all — these Holidays that matter not because the world says so, but because we have an excuse to be with family, friends, hug and laugh, if only for a day in remembrance of these holidays.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and have a Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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