Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on
Our troubles will be miles away, ooh

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more”

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – [Written by] Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane

It is this time of year when people start to think about New Year’s resolution and, among the other common ones such as lose weight, exercise more, start a blog and finally quit smoking, is the resolution to be nicer to people you previously have had altercations with. As with most resolutions, they fall apart within a few weeks because, at the end of the day, New Year’s is simply another day in the calendar and does not have much of a psychological attachment to it as some people claim. And so, by February we are just as nasty to those people we swore we would be nicer to.

It is, quite simply, built into our human systems not to like everyone we meet and not to get along with every colleague and every friend of a friend. You can be the nicest person on this planet earth and there will still be that one person that really, really irks you. Or you could be a person who hates someone for what they did to you in the past – someone who doesn’t deserve your forgiveness or your thoughts around New Year’s resolutions. I think you should save yourself the hassle of the negative thoughts – because I think I’ve got a better solution.

Next week is Christmas. In the religious sense, it is about celebrating the birth of Christ and the way he helped guide people through their lives in Biblical times. For others, Christmas is about family and friends, food and presents, and enjoying the day off. There is so much magic in the air around Christmas time, and through functions prior to the actual day, there is Christmas festivities to share with people who are in such a jolly good mood. Everyone deserves to have a Merry Christmas. From your best friend to your parents, and from the person who you bicker with occasionally to the person you hate the sight of, they deserve to have Christmas spirit. This doesn’t necessarily mean forgiveness or the start of a friendship, but it can mean a simple bit of holiday cheer in whatever way you can manage.

So, to my friends, my family, my colleagues, my university mates, my wonderful blog readers, and the people I really don’t like (whether or not you know it), I truly wish you a Merry Christmas. I hope you have a wonderful day – and if you aren’t a Christmas goer, I wish you a fantastic 25^th of December in what will hopefully be a fine summer’s day. I will see you for a final Kiwi blog next week, then I look forward to bringing your more rambling wisdom and musings in the New Year.