Where is the feel of Christmas in Ghana?
It is barely twenty days to Christmas and still the saying is on: we don’t feel the Christmas! Children of today are not making so much noise about Christmas like we did when we were their age. But whose responsibility is it to ensure we enjoy Christmas? This time certainly not government!
Christmas is a season to remember the birth of Christ and don’t forget Jesus said in Matthew 19: 14, Suffer little children, and do not hinder them from coming to me. But clearly, today’s little children do very little on their friend’s (Jesus) birthday, Christmas.
Some few years ago, so much was done in our communities to usher in the yuletide. Not to talk of the cool breeze and fog that greeted us each morning we woke up from bed, the harmattan which cracked our lips and dried our bodies for lack of moisture in the air.
Probably climate change has also affected the aura which comes with the yuletide. And for some of us in tropical countries such as Ghana, we might not have that feeling again. But I believe that should not rob our little ones of the feel and importance of this festive season.
Remember the days you used to dream about your Christmas dresses and shoes, get your home decorated, visit grandmas and grandpas and that special meal on December 25 after church?
Gone are the days when television and radio stations would whet your appetite for Christmas right from the first day of December with some carols and some Christian movies.
But for some media houses who believe we owe our little ones the real feel of Christmas, young children of today would be missing out on this festive season unlike we did when we were their age.
Am sure you are asking yourself, where did all these activities go? Well nothing has changed but it appears very little is thought of Christmas today and I wonder why?
But what wrong did these children do not to enjoy Christmas today? Parents’ busy schedules and the ever famous excuse of there is no money in the system is not good enough reasons to deprive children of today a memorable Christmas.
Obviously, children have plans for the Christmas season and so just like the older generation did for us some years back, we equally owe tomorrow’s generation, today’s children, an exciting and memorable Christmas for posterity sake.
Merry Christmas to you all!
Frema Ashkar , e.tv Ghana
Accra, April 18, 2012
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