Truer than Fiction

With the recent comment from an Italian Catholic priest, that Father Christmas is just like Snow White and Cinderella - they are all fables, said to have ruined millions of children's Christmas. The first thing that came to my mind was: isn't Christmas a fictional celebration of a fable character from a book as well?

Everything that has been said about Catholicism and Christianity has been based on a book and millions of different interpretations of it. Scientifically, there is limited finding of whether Jesus was an actual person or not. As for Father Christmas, like Jesus, it is also a made-up character. However, the real person that it is based on is Saint Nicholas, who was indeed a real person. As for whether those miracles really happened, well, it's up to the people to interpret.

So once the facts of everything has been considered, there is really no need for the children to be upset because what they believe is most likely to be truer than what the religious people believe.

And a Happy Christmas to you too!

Birthday Girl

As another birthday quietly approaching, I found myself face to face with the reality of changing. Especially from the changes of friends to career and mentality, it seems apparent that they are the changes for a better me.

With the upcoming celebration, instead of calling up or meeting people for the invitation, I'm using Facebook. The result hasn't been great, for some reason, those who I thought were 'friends' would just simply click on 'not attending' without a message saying anything else. Frankly, I didn't think it was that big of a deal at first, but then I put myself in their shoe and to someone whom I haven't seen for a long time and they've invited me to their party and I'm not going, I'd definitely at least leave a message about why I can't make it and hopefully catch up soon. But not even those who I call 'really good friends' left anything... it's really quite heartbreaking and saddening to be confronted by the all mighty Facebook.

Despite whatever reason there is, looking back a year ago, things were different, and looking back to all my birthdays, things have always changed. And I have to say, they are changing for the better, not because of my friends aren't my friends anymore but it seems that I'm more opened up with people and hopefully, the parties I have have improved year on year.

I guess we'll just have to see what comes out of this year's and determine if my prediction about improvement has been accurate. Wish me luck!