The First Christmas You Remember Having

The first Christmas you remember having is the greatest day of your life.

Your family's all together, there are loads of presents, cookies.

The magic is alive and well.

But before you know it you grow up.

Work and school and girlfriends take over and Christmas becomes more of an obligation, a reminder of what's lost instead of what's possible.

And all of the trees and the presents and even the mistletoe can't change that.

And then when you get to my age...

You're so desperate to get that magic back, you'd do anything to be able to feel how you did that first Christmas.

- Will Schuester, Glee S02E10

You think you are the star of Christmas, having so many presents under your family's Christmas tree or having so many Christmas parties to go to or just bothered not having a special someone you can hug during this cold season. Well, try to think again of what Christmas is for.

I don't want this first blog post to be cruel since we all enjoy Christmas and I'd like to promote optimism here, but we all have to remember that Christmas is Jesus' birthday and to thank God, His Father, that He gave us His only Son. That is His way of showing His love to us.

That said, God also gave us to our parents who loved when we first had our first Christmas with them. Our houses became homes; the family was full of happiness and love. Then later on, as we grew older we forgot how to make people, other than ourselves, happy, even our parents.

So try to think of the first Christmas you remember having. Then think of the Christmas you remember when you spent your time giving to others, if there really was any. 

Don't worry if you do not have that yet; you still have this coming Christmas to start, not unless you want to wait until you've grown a lot older and be desperate to get that magic back.