What a wonderful time of year this is. People are so nice aren’t they? Complete strangers wishing you glad tidings as drunks stagger out of shop doorways dribbling their beer as they fondly slur “All the best mate” whatever that means! There seems to be so much good cheer and genuine affection amongst humanity that one is tempted to ask why it cannot be like this all the time.

Cynics will say that it’s all artificial and no more than  false bonhomie, and of course man being the selfish creature that he is couldn’t really give a monkeys about the well being of others.  Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps deep down most people are decent and kind but our lives are so complicated and we live it at such a fast pace that for most of the year we rarely open our eyes to see what is going on around us.

Christmas is, of course, first and foremost, a religious festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ but we don’t need to be religious nor even practising Christians to care for our fellow man. Is there any reason why we cannot be pleasant to one another all year long? Why should it just be limited to the month of December?

Anyway, it’s just a thought and if anybody is out there reading this, sober or otherwise, I wish you a Very Happy Christmas!