The third day of Christmas

Well, I’m a little late to start the Christmas countdown seeing as it’s the third of the month. However, I was reminded earlier about when I was little...when I was young and naive. I was ten or eleven, I don’t really remember. So, we made these charts which represented every single day of the month of December in my class. Sort of like a calendar with just this month. Anyway, on every day slot, we stuck match boxes. So the 1^st of December had a match box stuck to it and so did the 2^nd, etc. Inside each match box we slipped in some sweets, however much you preferred. We did this so that during the month of December, you would eat the sweets in the matchboxes, relative to what day it was...genius, eh? Since I was a kid, that didn’t work much for me because I ate them all in one day and I kept on telling myself that, “Hey, you won’t eat tomorrow’s batch coz you ate it today.” My point is, and I do in fact have a point, that chart gave our young ignorant hearts and minds something to look forward to. Out of the long dreary month, you looked forward to the next day so that you could open up the next box of sweets. Alas, one day it would be Christmas and you would wonder how it came by so fast. Of course I confessed by saying my sweets did not even reach the 15^th of the month.

Now that my heart is not ignorant anymore and I know many things about the world...like the fact that Father Christmas is not real no matter how many ‘what ifs’ I am living on. I asked myself today, what I’m doing or planning to look forward to the next day. I’m sure that there are many of us out there waking up in the morning for the same old boring routine crap of a day. Now, I’m not going to go all bonkers and make that chart again with sweets, it’s ridiculous now. Besides, my teeth aren’t what they used to be. It should be a mental strategy. Take out that list, whoever you are and whatever situation you are in and make that something to look forward to everyday; and I don’t mean obligations like your job or whatever it is you do everyday. It’s nearly Christmas, pave that road and make it colourful, just like your imagination used to be. Release your inner ten year old and believe that anything is possible. Believe that tomorrow will be extra fun because you will get to retrieve that sweet from the 4^th of December’s slot, or whatever.

So, just like that carol goes, On the 3^rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me;...........Fill in that blank with something spectacular.

What did I do today...hmm...On the 3^rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me; I went out for a jolly walk and got a chocolate bar from the supermarket. (You see, it’s something even though it’s not all spectacular in someone else’s book).

Note: part of this is out of guilt from my “20 things I should do this week” list. Honestly, I’ve only managed the short story bit of list...and I only managed to squeeze in two, instead of five. So I feel really guilty. Try it...if you don’t have a colourful life...or a life, if ya know what I mean.

Yours truly

-Ziggie (: