Love deserves to be the Christmas gift of the year 2010

How many times haven’t you felt that you just have to buy a lot of meaningless stuffs for Christmas because you haven’t had the time to really make your gifts more personal? Every year we spend thousands of crowns on Christmas gifts. One or two might be very thoughtful gifts but the rest of them are often just garbage and you buy them because you feel that you need to do it since everybody else is doing it as well. And not to mention all the money we spend, feeling in the same time, that we can’t afford everything. A simple thing like spending time with your family instead would be much more appreciated gift.

    Our stressful lifestyle today does not permit us to socialize as much as we maybe wish for with our nearest and dearest. We are always in a hurry, we need to get millions of things done in one day and than if we have time or if we don’t feel too tired we spend some quality time with our families. To show some appreciations for each other, to listen to each other, seems not to have the priority in the everyday life. Therefore it would be convenient to dedicate ourselves and our love to our families at least for Christmas.

    I am not saying no to material things, especially not for our youngest. Of course they need both love and things to be happy about. Admittedly, the joy we see in their eyes once they open their gifts is a gift for us in itself. Yet many adults can feel the pressure to give away the perfect gift ending up buying another pointless thing that will collect dust on the ceiling. Why spend all that money because of the pressure?

    A convivial time together and appreciation for being together doesn’t have to cost anything. Isn’t it a perfect gift? I maintain that love shown in different ways can spread a lot of more joy than any material thing can do. Instead of helter-skelter kind of shopping in hasty Christmas time, let’s just relax, take time for each other and simply be together. In a word, let’s balance our lives with all these other things we have time for and give each other a simple Christmas gift this year: love!