Merry Christmas

Well it's Christmas Eve and Santa comes tonight.

Christmas is a time to spend with those that you love. To enjoy the gift of giving to others rather than the gifts that you will receive yourself.

Enjoy every minute of the day as it's special and only comes once a year. If you live until your 90 years old. That's ninety christmas's that you get to enjoy. Not really that many when you think of it that way is it?

The world is becoming a very angry place and people no longer treat other people with respect and kindness. Now people treat people that they do not know and some people they do know with contempt and anger and impatience. This is part of the world today that I do not like. I believe that over the past twenty years this has slowly gotten worse. Whether this stems from parents teaching there children that strangers are bad! I don't know. Yes there is evil in the world and some people are dishonest, evil, have no morals and break the law without any guilt. But not everyone is bad. And yes I am one of those parents who taught my children not to talk to strangers. But I have also taught them compassion and am trying to teach them the difference between an acquaintance, a friend, a family member and a stranger that they might meet in the street. All of whom should be treated with respect and dignity even if they speak meanly to you or push in front of you in a aline at the deli counter.

There are still alot of people who care about other people even if they don't know them and would not hesitate to help if assistance was needed. Look at people like fire fighters, nurses, ambulance drivers, doctors, and yes even the police. They help people that they do not know everyday. Yes it is true that some policeman treat you like a criminal when you speed 5 K's over the limit or go into the police station to report something you may have seen. But they are only doing there job and they do come across alot of "bad" people on a daily basis so there perspective of the average honest person down the street may be a little tarnised. Anyway got off the track there a bit.

The point of this is to wish everyone a merry christmas. And if we all try to be a little more tolerant of others differences, and not be so angry, stressed and abusive over the tiniest little problem. Appreciate that you are alive to enjoy life and wake up every day with that in mind and then maybe you won't fly off the handle at the next stupid driver who neally causes you to have an accident or you won't yell at the sales person or clerk who is just doing there job the best they can.

Chill Out Enjoy each day and most important be happy that you are alive to enjoy it another day.