Saturday 22 December 2007

Making Merry


"What's today?" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.
"Eh?" returned the boy with all his might of wonder.
"What's today, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge.
"Today!" replied the boy. "Why, Christmas Day."

The holidays have arrived and everyone seems to have developed an uncharacteristic sense of decency, kindness, benevolence and all that we righteous celebrators of Christmas consider good and moral. Christmastime is that time of the year when we shower one another with benedictions, sit together for an evening meal in peace and harmony. During the rest of the year, of coarse, we make it a blatant point to carry out acts of pure malevolence, to malign every other organic life form and to be indifferent to the chaos and pitiable state of the world.
The birth date of christ sparks in each of us a sense of humility but that warm fire of compassion lasts only a mere 24 hours after which it is dried out by reality, the indomitable.

8 comments:

Vasudha said...

Always a Scrooge, weren't you?
And since ghosts don't exist.....
.....sigh.
:P

Nik said...

lol... Scrooge, me?! didnt u see my Christmassy layout? ... :-D
and not ghosts, spirits.. *smirks*

either way i am a skeptic... cant help it. congenital defect. D-:

what u doin for christmas?

Vasudha said...

Spirit, ghost, sprite...pah,humbugs :P

I'm attending this kiddie party in about an hour, today.Tomorrow, temme about everything, and we can go to Oxford after that! They have a Christmas bash! :D
Day after, partehh at home :D

Vasudha said...

just your sidebar pic.
nice.
:P

Nik said...

ok... i'll call u in a bit.

humbug, humbugs, ham burgers...

Vasudha said...

*just saw.
:|

and wokay!
ps. i'm broke. :(

♪♪Happy Go Lucky♪♪ said...

hmm well i dont c the spirit n da ppl roound me...... but awesome blog... loved it.....am blogrolling ya.... cia.merry xmas. n amazing vocabulary.

Nik said...

me too... lets go celebrate our destitution by borrowing money and getting drunk!