My CHRISTmas experience

Every Christmas Season I can always remember a very special experience when I was a child. During our childhood years, I and my elder sister were encouraged by our mother to hangs socks outside our window. According to our mother the purpose of hanging our socks is for us to receive gifts for Christmas coming from a generous beard man named Santa Claus. We hanged our socks on the night of December 15 and opened it a day after. We have done that thing for 9 days in relation also to the number of days of the Misa de Gallo.

Every time I hang my socks, I always whisper a very sincere prayer asking Santa Claus to give me a toy car or a robot. The first day I opened my socks, I saw lots of candies and chocolates and it made me happy even if my request was not granted. From the very first day until the end, I always fail to receive what I wished to receive from Santa Claus. But despite of that disappointment I still believe in him and do the same thing the next year around. One time my cousin who was also my playmate shared to me his experience about the hanging of socks every Christmas. He told me that he caught her mother putting something inside his socks in the middle of the night. He was about to go to their comfort room when he noticed his mother walking slowly to the direction of their window. When he caught his mother his mother just smiled and kissed him. I was enlightened by the testimony of my cousin and it answered my questions which I kept for a longer span of time. At first I was angry because I felt that I was being fooled by my parents for letting us believe about Santa Claus and everything. I was also ashamed to myself because I was not keen enough to notice everything. I realize then the very reason why I always received candies and chocolates instead of robots and toy cars. Aside from the fact that we were so poor at that time and my mother can’t afford to buy those toys, she also doesn’t know what I whispered during my prayers because I kept it only to myself. I was really mad at them. I confronted them about that and they just told me that when I become older I will just understand things better.

Now when I remember that experience, I can’t avoid but to smile and eventually laugh for what I have done and felt during those times. That experience instilled the value of GENEROSITY and SELFLESS LOVE in me. It also paves the way for me to appreciate more my parents for their great love and sacrifice for my sake, for our sake! I really salute not just my parents but all the parents who really made great sacrifices and compromises for the sake of their loved ones. Most specially I appreciate and thank our Lord JESUS CHRIST for being the epitome of generosity and selfless love for the salvation of all humanity.

Merry and Happy New Year to all!!