Sunny Christmas

Since I arrived to Santiago, I joined the Christmas celebrations of my father's family: dinner with my grandma, brother, aunts and uncles. That side of the family is very small, but close. We cook different stuff every year. Christmas is just and excuse for us to join and share, because none of us (except for my grandmother and her sister) celebrate the catholic rituals.

I guess it's also a reflection of what happens society-wide. Less people tend to celebrate the religious origin of Christmas, and more people just share with their families and exchange gifts. Lately, even the gifts have more importance that sharing which is - in my opinion - a big problem. 

Consumerism is, in many ways, consuming us. We transformed a religious holiday into a shopping season. Every year, there's more focus on what you want to get for Christmas, than what you are going to do for Christmas. I don't think that's okay, not because of the "religious christmas spirit", but for the matter that we are giving to material stuff over everything else.

I don't really care what kind of gifts I'm going to recieve. I do try to give to my beloved ones things that they need or that they really like. I don't like just givings gifts because you have to give something, I care for the gifts to be things that will be useful or that will give joy to the ones that recieve them. I think that's the meaning of a gift, not just giving something, but giving something that matters.