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It looks like when the Silver Bells ring this year and Silent Night takes the air Santa himself will be struggling to do his rounds with possible curfew and lockdowns. Corona has tortured the entire world in absolute mean measures and is now getting ready for the final kill. The pandemic is going to ruin our festive season like never before. It is nobody\u2019s fault but that is how fate had decided to throw the dice. Of course, in many countries the battle against Corona raged yo-yoing between winning and losing. Most preventive actions and Covid 19 treatments were more like Russian Roulette, the medical world was fighting against time to find a cure. The unknown menace was spreading and killing people. That has been the story of the year 2020 for most, a time of trauma and sorrow that completely engulfed the entire planet. Yes, there is hope in our current status as vaccine solutions are in the horizon. So are promising Ayurvedic treatment. Yet we got to pass the interim till Pfizer or its competitors find a \u2018sure-shot\u2019 cure to put the world back to normal.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fizzled out Christmases are nothing new in Sri Lanka or for that matter in the entire world. Many of us have seen the full blast of a poverty Christmas or a war revenged Christmas. Of course, they came in different waves, but good enough to drown us in wallowing pity for the sheer lack of money to celebrate. Children were the most effected in this yuletide crossroad. The \u2018Haves\u201d had the festivity and flamboyance of everything whilst the \u2018Have Nots\u2019wrote meaningless letters to Santa Claus asking for the moon. It is the \u2018Have Nots\u2019 who heard other people\u2019s carols and crackers and watched neighborhood skyrockets screeching up to blast and flower-shower the midnight sky. This is a familiar cruelty of celebrating Christmas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The 2020 festive season somehow appears quite different. The change of season will be the same with the cold winds blowing to announce the coming of Christmas. I was at a shopping mall recently and noticed how empty everything was. The uniformed staff hung around the show cases waiting for customers who didn\u2019t seem to be coming. The usual pipe music had vanished, no Jingle Bells or reindeer Rudolphs to make sure Santa Claus is coming to town. Even the all too familiar red and white Christmassy caps that the salesgirls wore had gone missing. The \u2018Haves\u2019 still had it, but the mood has been burnt to cinders. It sure looked crystal clear that Corona had levelled the playing field for all to sulk and sigh in frustration. Whether you are rich or poor there is no Christmas this year to be celebrated as we did in the years gone by. It is a whole new ball game, totally coronafied from the crust to the core. The only way we can counter that is by having a sharing Christmas, a giving Christmas and give some real meaning by\u00a0 uplifting those who cannot afford a Christmas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be realistic. Whatever the form of celebration we are thinking of, better make sure it is limited and confined within the walls of our homes. That is the best way to be safe and that will be what the health authorities want done to keep Corona at bay. Of course, with all these actions of following the laid down rules and hiding in your house is our contribution to stem the spread of Corona. Rules are there but that does not apply to all and sundry across the board. Isn\u2019t it a fact that \u2018kissing goes by favour? I\u2019d rather keep that part out and simmer my impotent anger on the rights and wrongs of applying rules. What\u2019s good for the goose may not be uto <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Already the pre-Christmas frolicking is cancelled. The post-Christmas partying is in the doldrums. The thousands that flew in crossing continents to be with loved ones for the December holidays are not coming. The two-week quarantine on arrival alone is a major deterrent. The flights are drastically reduced, and the airports too are almost empty. The once majestic jet aeroplanes that came sardine packed with revelers are not in the sky. They are ghost like creatures today gathering dust in aviation graveyards. No solution except to celebrate Christmas with loved ones on zoom or facetime. \u00a0People still fight on to bring some cheer and brighten the spirits by erecting their Christmas tree at home. Small mercies no doubt, but it is better than no mercies. Kids still can be made to believe that the \u2018Ho Ho Man\u2019 will climbdown the chimney or creep through a window and leave his gifts beneath the tree. I presume that is one of the few things of the \u2018bucket list\u2019 that will survive the 2020 Christmas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s look at the shopping scene. Making list and buying gifts for everyone who had got into your favoured list is a major mind-boggling exercise.If you are poor, you don\u2019t have that problem. Never mind others you don\u2019t have money to buy anything for your own family. It is only the \u2018Haves\u2019 who celebrate Christmas giving gifts. If not a \u2018Have\u2019 one must at least be a \u2018semi-Have\u2019 to join this shopping and gifting parade. The romance of Christmas has always been a privilege of the rich. You never see the \u2018Have Nots\u2019 sitting at Cinnamon Grand Coffee Shop and munching chicken pies or even at a Pizza Hut starring at menu cards. Theirs is the Christmas of the poor, just scrambling whatever they can to light up a kid\u2019s face who is bewildered why Santa Claus never came to his home with train sets and what not. 2020 is sure going to be different. Corona has taken care of that. \u2018Have\u2019 or \u2018Have Not\u2019 the syllabus will be the same, stuck at home in a mood to match a funeral, no visiting or visitors, and no way out till the vaccine reaches you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Taking a peep at that wonderous week from Christmas to the New Year, things do look bleak even to the die-hard optimist. With social distancing and very few gatherings, the choices will be limited or non-existent. Yes, you can hire Tasty Caterers or Chariot and have a party. But who will come? \u00a0Then there are the traditional family get-togethers that are a \u2018must part\u2019 of the Christmas season. The annual Perera Clan Party or Fernando or Dias party that had been in existence from the days of the great grandparents? These are always meticulously organised and the host rotated with regimental precision. They are all gone with the wind for 2020. Cannot even plan as no one knows where the next cluster will surface and how quickly a lockdown or a curfew will be imposed. With all these Corona related serious problems facing us, it might be better to stay home and stare at the Christmas tree. Of course, can fix some blinking lights too and hang an angel or two to add more colour. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As I write this on the 12th<\/sup> of December the prognosis does not seem comfortable leading up to the New Year. The daily Corona infected counts are quite high and they seem to be remaining high. The authority\u2019s advice is for us to stay home as much as possible to avoid an unfacilitated contact with a Corona patient. Christmas or no Christmas, it is wise to be safe in self isolation. \u00a0Maybe that\u2019s what we all should do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As for the celebration it would be a blessing to take a \u2018time out\u2019 and ponder what this Christmas is all about? It is the birthday of Jesus Christ. We count the days for it to dawn to have a fantastic time. We buy gifts for all our loved ones, invite them to dine and wine and make merry to celebrate the birthday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Then what about the Birthday Boy? Shouldn\u2019t he too be included and gifted for his own birthday?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That is the answer for the Corona misery. The \u2018Have Nots\u2019 are all around us. We who may have been able to live above the poverty line as the \u2018Haves\u2019 are blessed. Even in some small way we must try to take the celebration to those in need, the multitude of \u2018Have Nots\u2019 around us. It is the thought that matters and the act of kindness will spread beyond your imagination. No church to go to and no people to invite for the grand Christmas lunch. Just change the play and go looking for the poor. New Year\u2019s Eve will come, and the bands will be silent, dance floors are sure to be empty, but the poor are there, in every corner of where you live. Give them a gift or some food or anything that they don\u2019t have. Just watch the glint in their eyes and the smiles on their faces. That would be a real celebration of Christmas. Pick a street kid or two and take them to ARPICO and let them push a trolly and pick things they dream about \u2013 some chocolate biscuits, maybe a sultana cake or a water pistol and a tennis ball. Anything is manna from heaven to a \u2018Have Not\u201d kid.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Corona will not and cannot stop the joy you feel of sharing. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our collective kindness is sure to make so many happy. Without a doubt, it is us who will be the ultimate winners. Look for the Birthday Boy. He will be loitering aimlessly in the streets or lying down in a gutter in some slum. That is the one who\u2019s birthday we are celebrating. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Go find him among the poor. You will certainly be celebrating this Corona Christmas. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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