The unidentifiable hope in a Christmas card
“Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”, a phrase that’s so often and easily put on a postcard or as a sincere sentence at the and of a letter or social media post. Without a doubt, it’s meant to be an hounest wish for all. Of course, we do know that just a small part of the world’s population celebrates Christmas and even fewer in the tradition of Christianity, in which “Santa” doesn’t exist and all the commercial overspending on credit cards has no place. We do know that the bearded figure we see as “Jezus” never saw a reindeer and that the whole story, or fairy-tale if you want to put it like that, took place in a society located in Palestine, without decorated Christmas trees, Coca-Cola trucks, Catholic bishops and some red dressed lunatic from the north-pole suffering from obesity. The celebration of Christmas is just a cultural and historical event that combines all kinds of ancient religions and rituals from over the world into one day, well two in some countries after labour uni...