Closing Thoughts of the Holidays

This will be one of the last posts about the Christmas season until November this year.

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer began surprisingly enough as a book, written by Robert L. May.  Written in the form of rhyme, much like The Night Before Christmas, the story establishes that Rudolph has a large, red nose that is not merely considered comical, but actually stated in-story to be generally considered unattractive by the standards of the other reindeer (probably their equivalent of having a prominently large aquiline nose), but as we all know, the sky is too foggy, and Santa requests Rudolph's help.  Rudolph obliges, and he saves the day.

Admittedly, as of the 2020s, one's physical appearance is actually of less social significance than it was over 80 years ago.  This can be a difficult fact to face for those of us who lived during the 2000s, when there was literally a show called Extreme Makeover, a show dedicated to plastic surgery (ironically, the spinoff called Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has since become more famous), but society has since seen how ludicrous this kind of thing was.  However, that doesn't mean that there aren't any more forms of  superficial judgement.  There are all kinds of people with all kinds of conditions of neurological and physical nature who often get unfairly judged, and yet, like Rudolph, many of them have things to offer that go unappreciated until dire need.

The lesson from this is that we have something going to offer to everybody.  You might have something that makes you different.   Don't be discouraged.  You have worth of your own!

What makes Christmas one of my favorite Holidays is that it has something to offer for everybody, just as well all have something to offer for everybody else as well.