I have a thing for snow, and I was born in winter. So normally I should have seen lots of snow….but no!
As you might not know, my hometown is as sea side moderate to Sub equatorial and you imagine how much snow would I get as a child!
It was such an unordinary matter that when I was 5ish, my mom brought us some snow from a daytrip to countryside.
I remember, in most cold winter nights, I would pray for snow. I asked god, please do the miracle and let me wake up to a snow covered view, but he didn’t till I was 28 or something.
In my people’s culture, New Year Coincides with the first day of spring and of course it’s so amazing, beautiful and lovely, but as a kid, a snowing holiday was a wish.
Now you can relate how snowing events fascinated me and they still do.
I have a blurry image of a post card in my cousin closet; blue background, a man with a white long dress covered up with a red poncho, a long cane and of course a halo of light top of his head, a cute lamb and a new born baby on a bunch of straws, flowers and greens everywhere.
I was too young to differ between New Year and Christmas. For decades, both had same meaning to me. But I was and still am in love with the vibes and decoration. As a special treat on Christmas day, TV would play ‘Mickey’s Christmas Carol’s cartoon, which nailed me to the screen and I barely can breathe.
In 90’, my most screen savers were snowing view or Christmas tree. To me Christmas and New Year were always like a fantasy bling bling shiny dream, even though it was a common happening in most parts of the world.
Every culture has its own attraction, Japanese cherry blossom festival, Holi and Diwali from India, Mombasa and the Gerewol from Africa, beautiful Jew Rosh Hashanah, Lunar in china and last but not least Nowrouz from ancient Persia.
Thanks to social media, starting yahoo messenger status change to [Happy new year] or [merry charismas], up to Google event changing logo, and the pop star Instagram, from the beginning had us engaged and gives us the reasons to celebrate beautiful upbeat events.
What does it matter if you are Buddhists, Jewish, Muslim or Christion. In my very own idea, Social media reform us all, to a unite friendliest.
I do enjoy watching my friends count down, thousand miles away across the world for New Year, or while like multiple colorful photos, wishing to join my friends for next Holi.
In a social media shorten world, what matters, is sending a massage and what is more valuable than love joy and hope, though from any part of the world.
Nothing belong to anyone, everything belong to everyone. World is ours
All the good feelings are joyful events are yours as long as you are enjoying it. Make a Christmas tree, celebrate Shabbat, prepare Haft seen setup or even make your own tradition and let others taste it as well.
So to all beautiful people of the world, merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year, right from my bedroom view, hillside of Milad tower, Tehran, Iran.
Love,Leila