For all the people who want a happy artikel about Christmas, I'm sorry to let u down, and maybe I'm a little pessimistic but now I'm getting older this is how I think about Christmas:

Five years geleden (I was nine) I was sitting in my aunts car on Christmas Eve, and we were talking about a tv toon in Holland called 'all u need is love'
I don't know if u know, of have the toon in America but the tv toon is about people who get unexpected visits from people that they love,and then, for one night, they can forget all their problems and enjoy Chrismas Eve together. I thought that it was a silly show, they have a great day, but when the great dag is over, they still have their problems.
My aunt (who was married to my uncle) thought that it was a great toon and she was saying things like 'all u need is love' and 'I'm so glad that I've found realy love'
A couple months later, my uncle got a new girlfriend and my uncle and aunt got divorced.

I'm thinking about this now, because my uncle is coming, today, for Christmas, to have avondeten, diner with us, but I know that my aunt (and the two children that my uncle and my aunt have) is still sad and that she will have a lousy Christmas.

And that brings me to my problem: how can u be happy at Christmas while u know that a lot of people are sad. Everyone is happy at Christmas, people say but u know that that is not true.
A lot of people pretend that they are having fun with Christmas and that they are happy. But u know that after the 'happy days' like Christmas and New jaar they're still unhappy, just like they were during Christmas and New Year. No stupid holiday can change that.

Maybe I thought about this way to much, and I know that u are suppose to enjoy Christmas and that u are suppose to have fun. And I think that I will try to be happy, but, tonight, when I'm sitting at the tafel, tabel during the Christmas dinner, while my uncle and his new girlfriend are making jokes,I will think about my aunt and her two kids who will pretend that they have a 'great' Christmas.

P.S: This is my first soapbox article, and my English is not so good, I've tried to make no mistakes in the grammar, but I'm shure that there are lot of mistakes, sorry.

P.P.S: Merry Christmas to everyone!