Christmas spirit

This year, I properly got into the Christmas spirit. Sent christmas greetings to lots of people in India and abroad. From the warm responses that we got back for these greetings, I am motivated to make this a regular affair. Let me see. (Here is the background image which I used to make all those greeting cards)

When you are regularly in correspondence with people in UK, Germany and US, getting the festive mood is only natural. From November, all plans revolve around Christmas. "I won't be available after December 20th till January 4th", "Let us try to complete the tasks before Christmas", "It can be done only after the festival season" and all that sort of thing. And, any mail you send gets an automatically generated response, "I am not in office. Will reply after January 4th. Merry Christmas, by the way". It is a nice feeling.

So, from our side, we also tried to do our little bit. We watched those goody-goody feel-good Christmas films in the computer. 'Miracle on the 34th Street' is the favourite.
Saw a nice old one called "Bishop's wife" also.

What a change! When we were young, the only thing we knew about Christmas was that people hang stars outside and go to church. Something to do with the birthday of Jesus. Heard of someone called "Christmas Grandpa". North Pole, Santa, Gifts, Chimney and all those legends were totally unknown to us as kids.

Western countries seem to go wild with celebrations. And, gifts. Each of those nice movies complain about too much of gift-giving and commercialisation! And, Cary Grant says in Bishop's wife, "We give gifts to everyone except the child which was born on Christmas - the Lord!"

Merry Christmas. And, a very happy New Year to all the millions of readers of my blog!