“My Grown Up Christmas List”

By Johanne Margarette R. Macob

NO, I am not going to review the song with the same title. I would just like to somehow imitate the goodness of the song’s message.

I just woke up but what really stirred me was this email from ‘Ate’ Cindy, popularly known as Miss Earth Colombia 2012. She sent me a picture with her holding a sort of Christmas card/letter she made herself especially for me, (I did post it on my Facebook account just in case you want to see it). I really was surprised for I never asked for one. As I told her, “it’s the best Christmas gift present yet.” And it’ll always be one of the best gifts ever because all the main components of a gift are there — thought and effort, with the element of ‘surprise’ as a bonus. So even if she wasn’t a beauty queen, the fact that she did make such effort is a big deal! And that leads to the main subject of this Christmas article: my Christmas wish.

I was like other kids. I used to wish for new toys, new stuffs to show off, and somehow I still do. However, to have new things is no longer at the top of my list now. Mushy as it may sound, I really am for world peace. I am longing to see the world in great harmony where all people understand and help one another, where every one would make such effort to make at least a person happy (as what Ate Cindy did to me!). I am envisioning a sort of Utopia where each and every person realizes the importance of the others as well as the value of the world, the environment.  Well, I welcome some disagreements, the healthy ones; for sometimes it’s through these arguments that people learn more. They are fine as long as they wind up making people appreciate the other’s ideas and thus making them better persons.

To cut it short, I wish for a world where love prevails at all times. That’s in every number of my list: love, love, and love…for I believe that it’s through love that other good things stem from.

So how do we get at least a step closer to the ideal world? Simple. Let’s start with ourselves. Again, if each person would endeavor to make at least one person in this world feel appreciated (in ways not hurting anyone or even anything of course) each day, then gradually the whole world would be better.

Let’s do our part.

Come on, send at least one person to cloud nine now! Make everyday Christmas Day, and when I say Christmas Day, I mean Love Day! Prolong, or should I say stabilize, the season’s spirit! Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas lovely ones!

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