Christmas another birth for internal refinery!

The white drops of snow fall down dancing gently until settling on the ground. Trees and roofs of houses are wearing a soft white velvet cloth. Smoke or fumes come out of most chimneys and go upwards.

The Santa Claus is seen at the windows of some houses, climbing up with a sack on the shoulder to bring gifts as well as luck and fortune for the family members especially for the children. Although it is snowing but still there are movements in the streets, light glitters every where even in the little gardens of the houses which are normally not such beautifully designed. There are snowmen near the houses wearing the red jacket and the red hat of the Santa Claus. The city is full of brighter streets even at night and evergreen trees are being decorated with lighting objects, brocades and ribbons, as if there is something to happen. People are also different these days, more charming and cheerful than other days as if they have eaten something special these days!

The ones who have enough money buy a lot of things and show more generosity these days; and the ones who do not have money, may only see the things and may not react or may feel jealous and regretful for not being able to bye them. The vagabond street musicians on the other hand enjoy the generosity of the people these days as well as even the street beggars earn more money as people are more generous and you see the shops and markets have more promotional offers in their showcases, decorated nicer these than other times.

In the morning, there is more traffic on the roads and markets and bazaars are more crowded and overall there is a big change seen every where in the city.

In the parks and public gardens of the city, there are decorations and places for time pass and winter games.

Oh my God! Something is to happen you think; what could it be? Could it be a seasonal change only? Could it be just a simple occasion, but if so there are many simple occasions in the year which are not celebrated or prepared for this way, but what is it?

Yeah! It is Christmas! And people are doing all these for Christmas and the New Year; and they are all the appearant aspect of Christmas but the spiritual aspect of Christmas is a bit more than only such changes and happiness.

Christmas the occasion of the birth time of Jesus Christ, is another birth for the inner personality of each of us. Another birth and another chance to see and review our actions and what we have done and achieved in one passed year, what mistakes we made and what problems we had, how many people we helped and how many people we could but did not help how bad we were and how better we could have been and how to be better hereafter, all are to be reviewed and counted for in such an occasion.

Christmas as an occasion of happiness while at the same time, a chance of privacy with our consciences to see and review or check and balance what we have done in the passed twelve months of the year based on which we would correct our mistakes and refine our inner personality and put it for judgment of oneself.

This internal refinery could be to see who we did not forgive when we could but did not, to see who we did bad things to but now regret and want to ask for forgiveness, to see who we did not help when we could so to help in the future and to see how we can be better humans in the coming year. Because there is always benefit when we start to stop the loss and as a quote from the novel The Kite Runner; “There is still time to be good again”.

Especially how nice it would be to make the other people happy, the people who couldn’t have or gain the happiness by themselves alone but with the help of the others; to make them happy is actually to satisfy our own consciences for having done enough good things.

Christmas as a happy occasion could be a time for scarification, for love, for dedication of oneself to the others by helping, giving love, asking for pardon, forgiving, understanding, feeling, removing past misunderstands, exploring and knowing better and reminding the forgotten ones.

Necessary to be mentioned, in Christmas and The New Year it is very important to restructure the architectural size of our hearts and rebuild it in a bigger size because each of us surely have made many new friends in the twelve passed months of the year, so we should have more spaces in our hearts for all those friends, then we have to renew the doors and windows and furniture of our hearts.

How good it is to increase our love to our best ones more than any other time in Christmas and The New Year; to give more love to the beloved ones and be lovelier for the adorers, and to ask for forgiveness from the ones who were sad with us or who have left us behind sadly during the passed months of the year.

At the end there is a harsh truth as well about occasions like Christmas; occasions remain and come and repeat again by the passage of time as long as the world exist, but each time, we get older and pass another year of our life time with such occasions, so how nice it be not to do things to be regretful for later and not to pass one year of life time meaningless and purposeless without seeing changes and betterment than the passed one.

Let’s be optimistic and assume Christmas and The New Year a positive competition for doing as many good things as we can so to have a better world full of joys for all humans.

Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you in advance!