Twelve Nights of Christmas: #9, Equanimity
Pick a recent event and review it in light of various possible emotions like happiness, anger and fear.
Well, Christmas should fit the bill quite nicely. It's been woven long enough within our DNA to elicit some deep emotions.
Christmas angers a lot of folks who feel pressured into giving and receiving, decorating and being merry. It's a time when guilt might surface when you're presented with a gift and have none to reciprocate. It might be a time of sadness if you find yourself far from family or more anger if not given the time off to celebrate.
Christmas is redolent with sensual memories that are exaggerated by mass participation. Reminders are everywhere: a six inch artificial tree sits atop a rusted refrigerator in a service station in the high desert.
But Christmas is, what it is. We get to choose our way to celebrate and with that, the way we want to feel.If it's anything but good, year after year, it has nothing to do with the greeter at Wal-Mart or the decorations that appear the day after Halloween. It's all in the shoes we decide to step into and the place we choose to stand.
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