Merry Christmas

And I really mean to wish you the joy of Christ's birth. Because that's the real reason for this celebration. And I hope you'd respect me enough to wish me Merry Christmas back, whether you believe Jesus really came or not. Please don't say Seasons Greetings, because that doesn't mean anything. What's the season and what's your greeting? 

If you were Hindu, I would wish you Happy Deepavali. If you were Muslim, I would wish you Selamat Hari Raya. And even if you were agnostic and didn't celebrate anything except New Year's Day, I wouldn't wish you Seasons Greetings on 1st January. So why deny me my right to be appropriately greeted during one of my religion's major festivals?

Enough with this concensus and harmony ethos. All it does is water down differences and make everyone confused. Why not call a spade a spade? If you called a spade a hoe, what use is that? Instead of fearing differences and striving to eliminate them, why not celebrate them, but in a wholesome, respectful manner? Differences are the very thing that make human life so interesting and wonderful. In fact, it is fearing differences and hating people who are different that results in so much of human woe we see around the world today. If we keep emphasising similarities and muting differences, we end up not having the maturity and the tools to come to terms with other people who are different from us and that would be tragic. That would be the very reason for the wars that go on and on through centuries even though no-one knows why they're fighting anymore.  

So, Merry Merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

Let's hope it's a good one

Without any fear.

P/S: And try not to call me a housewife, because it's a stupid term. I'm not married to my house though my husband is now roughly the size of one :P. So is Stay-At-Home-Mom by the way since I'm rarely at home and I'm not just a mom. Thanks!