Merry Christmas Nairalanders...
How has your preparation been?
It is few days to Christmas but I still can not feel it.
All i feel is this unfriendly harmattan following me around..

But what is wrong with Christmas of nowadays?
What has changed?
Someone said we have outgrown Christmas,
have we? I can't remember making that decision.

I was listening to a radio program recently.
The presenter asked the listeners to call in and share what
Christmas meant to them.

Most people that called in said it reminded them of the birth of
Jesus.
Typical answer, of course that is a major thing but is that it?
When I was a kid, Christmas used to be a lot of things.
It was something we always look forward to after our first term
Exams.

And in the family, your result had to be good for you to enjoy
Christmas.

It also meant having a life chicken in the house. Lol yea, we were
always excited about that as kids.
The chickens we had on eveey other day were mainly frozen.
SO, that of Christmas was special.
It was wonderful learning from papa, how to kill and slaughter a
chicken. Also the fun of being with mama in the kitchen, while she
fries it.

Christmas as a kid used to mean new clothes, and lots of them.
There was a difference between clothes bought for Christmas and
those you get on a normal day.

In fact, we usually press daddy to wait until 20th December before
taking us to get our clothes... There is this scent of newness and
the feeling of excitement, that comes with it.
And anyone that sees you wear them on the 25th would know it
was a Christmas dress.

Though we never did the "Christmas waka waka" thing like most
children did. But, the best we did was to spend the day having fun
with our relatives.

On Christmas day, we would watch different films about christmas
from dawn till dusk.
Our favourite was the 'Passion of Christ's' movie.
And we never got tired of listening to carol songs on the radio.
But nowadays, I noticed that radio stations hardly play carol songs
even two weeks to Christmas.
I remember how my siblings and I would disturb the street with
fireworks.

The people who knew our parents,would always report us to them,
some would threaten to arrest us. But, it never deterred us, we
later realised they were never serious, but just scared.
I still have lots of beautiful memories of Christmas as a kid.
Back to the present.

What are we missing today, and how did some of us out grow
Christmas?
I know some of the things I mentioned are for kids and you can't
expect adults to do those stuffs.

But adults have ways of having fun right?.
So, I decided to put myself in the spirit of Christmas by doing what
adults do..
I attended a carol service last Sunday.

Arrrgh.

It was something else, the M.C did his best to make it lively, but
his jokes were more than the nine lessons.

"There is no money in circulation, that is why this Christmas is
hard nowadays"
That statement is now a cliche. We have been hearing this since
God knows when and we still enjoyed Christmas then.

So what happened to Christmas, did we really out grow it?
Where has the magic gone?
Is it as exciting for the kids today as it used to be for us then?
And can adult too have such good fun?

Do you agree that Christmas isn’t the same as it used to
be?
Step forward and share your thoughts with me



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