Temat: Xmas thread:
I'll be home in Christmas. I like home.
I'm not raised in a Christian country, so I don't feel the same way as you do, guys.
We know a guy called "Noel" back in Turkey instead of Santa Claus. It's others' "father" and we don't mind him walking around in the streets of Turkey. He looks sweet but he is a stranger, at the end.
In Turkey, Christmas is not traditionally celebrated, as you might have guessed, but you can see some Christmas trees (or the fake ones) in shopping malls, or your foreigner friends' homes. They look nice, but I've never felt like buying one and putting it into my living room. I prefer candle light and some other sweet decorations, and they aren't necessarily taken out from their boxes in Christmas time.
After moving and living in "Christian countries", for about 8-9 years of my adult life, I still don't feel like Christmas is important for me, and I still don't mind it. Except one thing...
Only thing I care and like about Christmas is, its power and tradition to bring family members together at least for couple of days once a year.
It saved some of my days couple of times, because I witnessed presents and the atmosphere softening the bad mood of others. They understood, or they behaved like they understood their mistakes and kiddish angers as pointless stupid things and they started to behave normally again. At least for couple of more weeks.
For me, Ramazan (Ramadan) has/had a similar effect. It brings families together, makes some angers and resentments washed away, creates a better atmosphere to forget little unimportant bad memories.
If something gives you a sip of good mood, you gotta take it. You don't have to see and care about the "commercial effects" of it. See the good thing in Christmas. Don't be a kid. Christmas is a good thing.
Merry Christmas to all.