My daughter was leaping around yesterday morning declaring, “It’s almost Christmas! It’s almost Christmas!” After I had tried to explain it several times and then finally sat her down so she was actually paying attention to me, I spelled it out for her: “It is Christmas.” She was slightly disappointed, I think mostly because she didn’t have anything to leap about and declare anymore.
Sometimes the anticipation of an event is more fun than the actual event.
What’s the point of the extra week at the end of the year after Christmas? There’s nothing more to celebrate except the new year, so why don’t we skip the rest of the week and get right to it? It’s not like we’ve got anything going on. And we all got these new calendars for Christmas that we want to start using right away. They all have new things on them to look forward to and anticipate, and looking at those last seven days of December on the old calendar just seems a little sad.
Maybe that’s why some calendars come with the first three months of the next year tacked on, too. Or maybe those people just want to make sure future generations know that the world didn’t end just because the calendar did. It could be, though, that those extra-three-month calendar types are just the kind of people who know they won’t get a calendar for Christmas and are leaving enough time to go out and buy themselves a new one.
I guess we could spend the rest of the year anticipating the next one. There’s always something to look forward to.
My plan is to spend this last week of 2012 waiting for my 2013 calendars to show up in the mail.
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