Santa Claus is a special character and he always comes with the Christmas tree, Christmas socks and tells the people — Christmas is coming.
In the western countries, Santa Claus is a beautiful legend and symbolizes the hope, dream and love. Every year he brings the kids the presents to spread this spirit. I think everyone will experience three parts of his life — at first, to believe in Santa, then not believe in Santa and at last to become a Santa himself. Does Santa really exist? It’s a question many kids may ask their parents. I still can remember the famous editorial published in 1897,America. It was a reply to a child, whose friends didn’t believe in Santa. The newspaper editor said, it was wrong, Santa did “exist” and he would never die.
Actually Santa is at the beginning not a fiction character. He carried the kindness from people’s hearts and spread it around. Especially nowadays he’s more a job than a character from the tales. In some countries there are still organizations of Santa Claus. The people there are busy replying to children’s letters from different cities and getting Christmas well prepared. It’s an occupation to be admired. The “Santas” are popular everywhere and bring happiness to the children but I’m just thinking about the part-time “Santas”. Actually very few of us can ever say “I’m totally and 100% satisfied with my job.” Sometimes you earn well with a job but it’s quite boring. Sometimes a job may let you feel your existence and personal value but you don’t get enough money to afford a living. Sometimes a job seems a great challenge but the lasting overtime and never-ending study may make you very tired.
If you don’t feel happy in your job, or your work isn’t recognized, or even you feel boring, let’s see how those Santas do. Beyond their own occupation they choose it as the second job. The moment that they’re wearing a red hat, glued with white beard and sending the gifts, they’re happy. We can ask ourselves, what about me? What about my dreams? Learning a musical instrument? — No time; traveling around the world? — No enough money; Doing something good to the environment — just let it delay… It’s too normal, so normal that you are too tired to dream and you don’t want your childhood dreams to torture yourself any more…
I read an essay before. A man was CEO of an international company and earned very well. Some day he suddenly couldn’t find the meaning of his life, so he took a vacation for half a year and left the city he used to live in and traveled to a very poor place. He taught the children there and changed their lives. In the moment he deeply felt the true worth of his life. Yes, our job is only a job, if it can’t give us all we want, it’s very normal, but why can’t we search for what we desire in our spare time?
Another example from another book: a young man worked as an officer in a government, but he liked making music very much. After he got to understand the difficulty as a music producer, he gave up his original idea of the resignation and went to a pub instead to play as a keyboardist after work or in his vacation. If you really like something, even you can’t make money from it, it doesn’t matter at all. The most important thing is, it makes you happy and that’s all.
Some people say, if a dream meets the reality, there’s nothing we can do. Actually I think it’s not true. A dream would never exist without the reality base. If you have a dream, do you think about it, how can you get closer to your dream? A dream doesn’t change the reality; it comes true from the reality. At the very beginning, a dream is a baby, little and weak, but it lies in your own hand whether you want it grow up.
If you see “Santa Claus” next time, can you imagine that he doesn’t only spread the hope, the love, but also a wish that a true “Christmas present” is to be competed for? Today is Christmas, despite the hustle and bustle of the Christmas Rush, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. So what is your “Christmas present” for yourself?
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