| Skybird |
12-14-16 11:10 AM |
Christmas means most pleasurable childhood and youth memories for me, and that is what makes this time special to me. My Mum and my Dad did their best to create a most "gemütliches" home and we had always beautiful, though tasteful, trees, and candle lights distributed around the place. Thats what makes it so special to me - the memories, the family traditions. The meaning of Christmas does no longer connect with us since we all are atheists, but still we respect people trying to make this time something special for their families or kids, and hold it in high value.
Its also the reason why we turn angry over the over-commercialisation of it. The last years, christmas decorations and candies showed up in supermarkets and storehouses already at the end of July. :timeout: Thats some distortion that I really get furious about. This year at least it was about September until they rolled out the Santa Claus parade. Still way too early, if you ask me. No christmas stuff until 5-6 weeks before Holy Night, that should be a legal limit.
This business frenzy of hopelessly exaggerated longer-earlier-more, really has done severe damage to what I recall to have been something precious, and beautiful, and heart-warming. And I intend to not forgive them that.
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If you happen to be in Lübeck on Christmas night, make sure you pick up your spouse or family for a midnight walk in the small streets of the old town, or along one of the two rivers that embrace the old town and make it an island effectively, do it when the midnight matters begin. You have five huge churches with seven huge towers and all of them having very impressive and huge bells - all concentrated in a very limited space and a very atmospheric old town. When they start their toll, the air is vibrating in all of the old town, no matter where you are, and you feel a sound massage all on and over your body. Unforgettable.
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