It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

So, when I woke up this morning and realized it was really Christmas Eve, I felt confused. The time had sped by and suddenly it's the end of December. How on Earth that happened I don't know. I blinked and suddenly my final year of high school is half over. But the real thing that puzzled me was that it doesn't feel like Christmas. It feels like another day.

I've been playing the Michael Buble Christmas album over and over on my iTunes waiting for the magic to finally sink in. I made my boyfriend take me to see The Rise of The Guardians and I've watched Christmas flicks on Hallmark and ABC Family for weeks. So why doesn't it feel like Christmas?

I thought maybe it's because I'm Jewish and we celebrate Christmas because my dad's family is Catholic. Maybe I just stopped believing in Christmas magic. But I don't think that's true because when we left Rise of the Guardians, I felt like a little girl who remembered why she believed.

Maybe it's because we do Christmas all wrong. We open gifts on Christmas Eve and have a fancy meal on Christmas Day. But that's never stopped the magic before.

Well, what if I'm too old for Christmas? I struggled to argue with myself on this one because, as I've aged, I've begun to care less for the material things in life. But this question ultimately lead to the answer.

After pondering this question all morning, it just suddenly hit me that the message of giving has not been preached as thoroughly as in the past. I also haven't heard about the value of the immaterial either. Things with more meaning than just "What do you want?" My age does have something to do with it, I suppose, because I'm now old enough to hear the half-hearted "Merry Christmas" from the cashier at Wal-Mart. I'm old enough to see the greed in children's eyes even though they probably won't play with the toys they get beyond New Years. Christmas songs play on the radio at Thanksgiving already and lights go up at the same time. Christmas has lost much of it's value.

Hopefully, those who feel as I do, if there are such people, will find Christmas magic with their families instead of in their stockings. I'm planning on searching for Christmas magic withing my family, my boyfriend and his family, and God.

God Bless your families this holiday season.
Merry Christmas!
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