{"id":106157,"date":"2022-12-21T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=106157"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:38:07","slug":"somebody-stole-my-christmas-by-capt-elmo-jayawardena-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/somebody-stole-my-christmas-by-capt-elmo-jayawardena-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody stole my Christmas  &#8211; By Capt.Elmo Jayawardena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Somebody stole my Christmas &#8211; <span style=\"color: #808000;\">By Capt.Elmo Jayawardena<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106158 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/christmas-sky-e1671633182730.jpg\" alt=\"stole my Christmas\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75863 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capt-Elmo-Jayawardena160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/>Christmas is special, rather very special.\u00a0 Everybody looks forward to Christmas. Silent nights and silver bells, mistletoe and pine smells, all wrapped up in wishes and kisses and the hugs and gifts that are so very special at Christmas time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Looking forward to Christmas is a world wide phenomenon; the mighty and the humble, the rich and the poor, the holy, the unholy and the super unholy, they all await the yuletide. The &#8220;haves&#8221; revel and the &#8220;have-nots<em>&#8221; <\/em>scramble. Yet a celebration is made, no matter how small the purse is or how light the coins jingle in one\u2019s pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0I always look forward to Christmas. It&#8217;s such a beautiful time. There is always something wonderful about that season. To a point it is imaginary. To be enjoyed more in prospect than in reality. Yet, it is something to look forward to, something to pastel shade the every day prosaic of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One can have a wonderful Christmas, a terrible Christmas or maybe a &#8220;could have been better Christmas&#8221;. I&#8217;ve had my share of the entire lot. But 1994 was different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Someone stole my Christmas<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">My twenty fourth of December became the 26<sup>th<\/sup> with no twenty fifth in between. Yes, my Gregorian calendar for the year 1994 did not have a twenty fifth, which meant &#8211; no Christmas day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That, in all its simplicity is my story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It needs a unique combination of ill-luck to achieve this oddball situation. One must be really feasting on a bad news buffet to be the recipient. Well, I have often been a champion at pulling the short straw. This really was one of the shortest I ever drew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">My nomadic aeroplane driving world had sardonically made sure my Christmas was cancelled. No silent nights, no Santa Clause, no church bells that ring silver. No wishes and kisses and hugs that bind, just one simple leap from the twenty fourth to the twenty sixth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Possibly, I was no favorite of Santa Clause. Never mind a gift; I would have been glad if he had given me the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Yes, some don&#8217;t get into his list. That is the sad side of Christmas. The left-out ones are usually poor little kids who believe and write those meaningless little notes and wake with hope and find Santa never arrived. Almost similar to aeroplane drivers who leapfrog the Christmas day. I\u2019ve seen both sides of that coin; once upon a time I too have been a note writer to wake and find Santa skipped my house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0I guess one more time wouldn&#8217;t make all that much of a difference. Once in a while it&#8217;s good to remember that you can&#8217;t win them all. You got to lose some too. It&#8217;s good to know the feeling of losing, that&#8217;s what life is all about.\u00a0 You win some, you lose some, and you grin and go on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At eleven in the night on the twenty fourth of December 1994, I power-ran the big jet engines of a 747 and rolled down the runway from the City of Angeles and flew into a noel night sky, on my way to Taiwan. It&#8217;s a long flight from Los Angeles to Taipei, almost fifteen hours.\u00a0 Flying west bound, I crossed the international dateline and landed in Shiang Kai Shak Airport on the 26th of December. Some where across that lonely Pacific stretch, someone erased my Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I remember everything about that night; it was so very special, something that needed to be saved in the hard-disk of life. I recall how I kept staring at the vast clear open spaces that I love so much, the Pacific Sky splashed with heavenly lights and traces of whispery clouds. I remember a gibbous moon too, pale, yet luminous, giving a silvery touch to the mid-night blue.\u00a0 It&#8217;s difficult to describe, the serenity. It&#8217;s the zenith of what beauty could be. The tranquility of a night flight-deck in silent glide under the munificence of a million stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0At thirty seven thousand feet, I felt I was in a very special church. I was in God&#8217;s own cathedral. I remember solemnly singing my own mass, at least the parts I could remember and reverently giving myself some sort of a sermon. Then I caroled it with a hum of Silent Night and Silver Bells and thanked all the Gods in creation for all they have given me in life and especially when they hadn\u2019t asked for anything in return. That was my prayer; no request, no complaint, just heartfelt words of gratitude expressed in solitude seated on the left seat of a 747 whispering words that came from the very depth of me where very sacred thoughts are stored.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Thus under the canopy of a celestial heaven, I celebrated my own Christmas. That was a beautiful and wonderfully memorable communion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I landed in Taipei with grateful thanks for a very special Christmas that would last in memory a lifetime. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Yes, Christmas is not only the glamour of a glittering pine tree laden with tinsel and coloured lights. Not a fancy Hallmark card or a gift from a loved one. Neither is it a visit from Santa Clause nor a feast of champagne, caviar and chateaubriand. It is much more, perhaps something closer to a remembrance of who we are and in some ways a sanctified communication with who or what someone calls God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a01994 taught me that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Capt.\u00a0\u00a0 Elmo\u00a0 Jayawardena<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:Elmojay1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elmojay1@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody stole my Christmas &#8211; By Capt.Elmo Jayawardena Christmas is special, rather very special.\u00a0 Everybody looks forward to Christmas. Silent nights and silver bells, mistletoe and pine smells, all wrapped up in wishes and kisses and the hugs and gifts that are so very special at Christmas time. \u00a0Looking forward to Christmas is a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31140],"tags":[50192,50193,50191],"class_list":{"0":"post-106157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-capt-elmo-jayawardena","9":"tag-celebration","10":"tag-jingle","11":"tag-silent-nights","12":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Somebody stole my Christmas - By Capt.Elmo Jayawardena - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christmas is special, rather very special. 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