After the shopping the cleaning commences! It took me two days to make the place spotless, cleaning windows, floors, dusting and put all the Christmas decorations up. I was exhausted but the end-result was great:
I do love Christmas but it is also a hard time for me, thinking about lost childhood, lost loved ones and an uncertain future. I mixed pot really.
The question is what is Christmas really about for me?
I am not Christian so I don't celebrate the birth of Jesus. I am more of a pagan and a Viking.
The Christmas is obviously highly commercialised and as a shopaholic I spent loads on Christmas decorations. So I have done my bit to save the economy!
Christmas is also nostalgic and promotes the happy family like a sort of TV commercial where everybody is happy, healthy and rich. I will spend Christmas on my own in poverty, illness and sadness so it doesn't really fit the average Christmas image.
I do think it is important with traditions and to split the year up in different themes like Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Midsummer and so on. Otherwise I think life could just become some long meaningless big nothingness.
I went for a talk by Dorothy Nicolle titled All About Christmas and it was about Christmas traditions in England in a historic perspective. (See Nicolle's website )
It was a really good talk and the speaker mentioned the pagan rituals as well. She reminded me that December is the darkest month and we need to celebrate the coming of the light (and hope). The 22nd of December is the winter solstice, which means that from then on the days starts to get lighter and the spring is coming. Hurray!
That's what Christmas is all about; a celebration of the light, hope, a new beginning and a better future for all.
So, I like to wish you all a very, very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
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