Christmas

Christmas

When I was a child, people used to celebrate Christmas in family. They shared gifts, had special dinner, dance, and drank liquor.  All the block people joined themselves to kill pork and made a barbecue. The next day people kept danced, drank and prepared a lot of food in the streets. All the streets were decorated with lights and burned life-size dummies, at the midnight people threw fireworks and huge their families. All was happy and beautiful, they were beautiful times.

Now, people don’t share in family and the Christmas spirit is lost. There are less Christmas light than before. Blocks are already alone because people prefer to travel to another town to celebrate with unknown people. The old customs are totally lost. People are colder than before. Children prefer internet and smartphones, and they don’t like to share with family. The gifts for the children are not like an other times. Now they know who give the gifts, in other times children believed in “Jesus boy”

In the future, December is going to be like an another common month. There won’t be any kind of celebration, any kind of Christmas light, any kind of Christmas tree, any kind of fireworks. It’s going to be a sad day for people who celebrated a happy Christmas. Technology is going to create lonely people. Technology will be more important than family, and the street rules will be exaggerated, and whatever thing will be illegal. We’ll can do nothing in the street, things like barbecues, parties, bonfires, and things like that. 

Norbey Alzate