Merry Christmas Twilight

Sat here in the twilight of the inter-christmas/new year period its difficult to think of a more confusing time. Christmas, however entertaining or predictible passes by quickly to leave you bloated, heavier and probably slightly diabetic. Christmas is great though, even for someone who is, much like alot of us nowdays, extremely unreligious it is hard to find a more exciting and care-free time of the year when excuses are thrown out of the window and ever so slight friendships are rekindled, embarrassingly or not. Christmas has and will continue to lose its meaning in a world masked by advertising, consumer greed and material gain but even so it is hard not feel some enjoyment at eating and drinking a hideous amount of food and drink and glowing in the contentment of another great present. For a brief moment even the most cynical of realists can sit back and forget that the gap between rich and poor continues to grow at unmittigating rates and that the world is probably going to boill itself alive with us as the proverbial sprouts. Christmas is a brief wormhole that opens for a brief second to let older people peer into their childhood, it can and should be a time when that irritating 'conversation' with someone you dont really like can be forgiven and you can talk about every bland topic he or she wants to. It is happiness personified, even after a terrible year with every personal disaster imaginable taken place Christmas gives us the opportunity to take a brief restbite from it. I hate the fact Christmas is now 'advertised' from the start of October to entice people onto the high street but once it has quietly sprung upon us the joy of eternal youth can once again excusably reappear. If you are in Chesterfield for the New Year, unlucky, and watch out for the 'clones', unbelievably and dangerously bland.