Does Anyone Ever Decorate With Mistletoe?
I’m sitting here listening to “Mistletoe” by Justin Bieber and I’m thinking to myself, does anyone ever decorate with mistletoe? I’ve been to plenty of holiday parties and I’ve never seen it. The only place I have actually seen mistletoe is in Christmas-themed movies and Justin Bieber’s current video. Yeah—I’m a fan of the Biebs. The kid has talent. Sure, he’s overhyped and way over marketed, but so are UGG Boots. Besides, it’s no secret that I’m a sucker for cheesy pop music. Anyway, back to the mistletoe …
Christmas is usually my favorite time of the year. But this year it feels as though something is missing. It’s raining outside of my window instead of snowing. There’s no Christmas tree sitting in the corner of my house (never had a chance to get out and get one) and that magic Christmas feeling is severely lacking. The only thing that isn’t missing for me this year is the spirit of giving.
On Monday, my wife and I were out and about in the city. We had just eaten lunch and a man was sitting outside on a bench. He was obvious homeless, and all he wanted was a sandwich. So we got him some lunch—Sushi actually. Out of everything he could have gotten to eat, he chose Sushi. Shrug. It was the highlight of the holiday season for me so far.
I’ve had a tough month since Thanksgiving. I guess you could call it a wake-up call. I have been talking the talk but not really walking the walk. It made me realize that I need to make some serious changes in my life, and that I can’t keep believing in certain things and not living them. I always tell people to trust life, that things happen when they are supposed to and that everything happens for a reason.
Well, it’s time for me to take my own advice. I believe that the challenges that happened in my life recently happened for a reason and that reason is for me to make some positive changes in my life. Sure, I was clearing out some deep, deep (DEEP) emotional baggage, but I also realized that there are some negative thought patterns in me that I need to address and change as I move forward.
I like the saying, “there’s a rainbow in every storm.” It reminds me that the tough stuff is only temporary and that there’s always something beautiful to be found in it. Even when I’m down on my knees, crying hysterically and shaking from the inside out, something keeps me hanging on. And it ain’t mistletoe.
I don’t know what it is, really. But I can describe it as a sense that everything is going to work out. Somehow, it’s going to be okay. And I just need to keep hanging on.
On that note, Merry Christmas. I hope that it’s full of love, light, snow, giving, receiving and even mistletoe.
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