Christmas cards

I learned a lot from the past year, i bought a beautiful little condo, i finally got my driver’s license at 37 years old and unfortunately I got into a break up. Every year,for the past 10 years , I was celebrating Christmas with families and in- laws. Suddenly, everything changed. My whole world collapsed in an instant, when that happened.This year I was alone with my son. I still saw my parents and my brother on FaceTime but it wasn’t the same.

However,through this change, I had to discover and knowing myself again . I only knew or i thought so, at that moment, myself through him. In fact, i wasn’t myself, and a part of me was gone. I was becoming somebody else. Now that I finally free, i realized that my real nature is being kind and generous. I’m always the one who asking if anybody needs help. This year i wanted to do something good but not because i wanted to feel good about me. I wanted to give that’s all.

I may open a can of worms here, I’m sorry in advance if you get mad. I feel these days, the term kindness is becoming a trend in a bad way. I’m watching a lot of videos about generosity and selflessness on social media. These are supposed to show kindness. Even so, I watched people taking advantage of this term and showing the audience how great they are in order to have a lot of likes. I’ll give you an example, i saw a video one day about one guy who helps an homeless man. The homeless was in search of a job. The other man help him by getting him a haircut, buying clothes and drive him to his interview. I’m not saying that it’s not good to do that. It’s even very generous of him to spend some time with the guy.

Nonetheless, I deplore the way it was done. The man recorded and then posted it on the net. I’m pretty sure that if it wasn’t about the likes and being famous, He wouldn’t do that. I really have doubts. I saw a lot of videos like that and I found them pretty sad. That’s the reason why I’m finding the term kindness overrated. I apologize once again for my opinion on this.

In the past I did a lot of acts of kindness, like giving a bus ticket to a lady that needed money to buy one, offering my day off to a colleague in order for him to spend Christmas with his family. This is just a few and I was expecting anything at all. It’s cool if I’m getting thanks you but it’s not my purpose.

For the last holiday, I was inspired by someone who did some humanitarian work overseas. I realized that I wanna do something good too. I wanted to help in some other way, I saw a facebook’s post about sending Christmas’s card to the elders. I fell in love with that idea. Why not ? I asked to myself. I decided to send a lot of Christmas cards To one elder’s residences. I bought a pack of cards and i composed a beautiful message both in french and english. The year 2020 , was the best time of the year to give because of what’s happening in the world right now. It’s crazy how the pandemic is turning right now. They’re a lot of madness and sadness. They are so many people that celebrated the holidays alone in their home especially elders. I wanted to bring smile to them and i wanted them to feel comforted by my writings. I really loved that experience and i decided to repeated each year from now on. It’s going to be my new Christmas tradition.