Growing

It's always a pleasure! Watching kidz having fun and trying to reach a piñata is simply lovely. I wonder if I was like that (cute) when I was kid. Personally, I should say, I remember myself being very shy and introvert. Yes.

The funny thing is that after middle school I started being more friendly and having more people around me. Later, I got into a seminary (to become a priest) and that obviously requires a lot of extroversion. People said I was cut for that, and I thought so too.

When I left the seminary to study TEFL, I realized that my personality had developed some sort of gift. Maybe I had it beforehand, and it was just polished, or I acquired it in my three years with the Scola Pia. Whatever it was, I should say I like what I have inside and I enjoy now being more extrovert, and somehow a leader sometimes.

There's no doubt: we simply grow, sometimes for better. Just like me :D

Xmas

From that place we all go to when it's time to do our homework:

December 24: Christmas Eve

* 1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world

* 1818 – "Silent Night", a Christmas carol by Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber, was first performed in a church in Austria.

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Talking about Xmas Eve, I was wondering if some other people would care about Xmas as much as Christians. I mean, there is this whole bunch of publicity about it. I don't know, we don't hear that much about Hanukka or Ramadan month on the news or TV commercials, but Xmas had become the most successful event in the year if one wants to sell something. Business pay a lot of money and receive more during these days. What is the sense of Xmas then? Is it a non-religious celebration? More and more we go away from the original meaning of that day: Christ's birth.

Does He actually care? According to some scientists, he wasn't born during those days, or at least not during the year they say. So, what if we forget his birthday and use it to buy one hundred gifts. Xmas has been changed into a consumerism celebration without any religious meaning.

I'm not sure about the other people outside, but if I weren't Christian and I had to go through all the Xmas "spirit" year after year... I'd be a little pissed. After all, we just do it because we like to get something under the tree on the 25th. Don't we?

Think about it...

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