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

Five years ago (I was nine) I was sitting in my aunts car on Christmas Eve, and we were talking about a tv show in Holland called 'all you need is love'
I don't know if you know, or have the show in America but the tv show 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 day is over, they still have their problems.
My aunt (who was married to my uncle) thought that it was a great show and she was saying things like 'all you 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 dinner 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 you be happy at Christmas while you know that a lot of people are sad. Everyone is happy at Christmas, people say but you know that that is not true.
A lot of people pretend that they are having fun with Christmas and that they are happy. But you know that after the 'happy days' like Christmas and New Year 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 you are suppose to enjoy Christmas and that you are suppose to have fun. And I think that I will try to be happy, but, tonight, when I'm sitting at the table 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!