People seemed to respond well to a thread I responded to on Coldplay's single 'Christmas Lights':

 

 

At first I laughed. Then actually, I realised how sad this is:

 

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Originally Posted by Noémie;4574448

 

 

[by Luke Lewis

Posted on 03/12/10 at 09:49:53 am

 

"Christmasiness" is a precious and evanescent thing.

 

People spend the whole of December stumbling round in a mulled wine-blurred trance, saying to each other: "Do you feel Christmassy yet?" "I don't know, do you?"

 

What Christmassiness most definitely isn't, is a commodity that can be hammered into the ground for weeks on end. It's a fleeting thing, to be savoured for a few days, max. Preferably when you've finished work/uni/school and you're back home, sprawled on the sofa, watching Scrooged.

 

Any earlier than December 20 and you're ruining it.]

 

 

Hmm. Ok. Here goes:

 

I believe that Christmas time is more special than just getting hammered and experiencing a slight flight of 'Christmassiness'. I CERTAINLY think it can last more than a few days. Perhaps this guy's confused between Christmas Spirit and the alcoholic kind of spirits.

 

Here's the crux of the matter: I think that there is a spirit of goodwill, that thing inside you that comes alive at Christmas time, that says,'Yeah. Life's good.' But it's not necessarily just for Christmas. Not at all.

 

We sing every year 'I wish it could be Christmas every day', but if Christmas is captured by that good, positive feeling about yourself and towards other people, then I honestly think it can. The only reason it's become a 'rare and precious thing' is because people don't believe that anymore. Or maybe no-one ever did.

 

I'm not for a moment suggesting we keep the tree up and give each other presents every day - that is what Christmas has become on the commercial side. And it is hard to see through that, to what Christmas is really about (Articles like this don't help). But in embracing that feeling of goodwill to EVERYONE - even a Scrooge at NME - I believe we can make every day feel like Christmas.

 

So yeah. I'm excited about Christmas now, cheers. I won't wait until December 20th. And I'll try my best to be as excited as I am about Christmas day coming towards every day of my life. It won't be easy, but I'll try.

 

 

 

I'll regard this thread as a future place to put down thoughts I'm having about anything and everything. Feel free to tell me to stop or to tell me to shut up and stop.

People seemed to respond well to a thread I responded to on Coldplay's single 'Christmas Lights'

 

Lemme see.

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A very interesting and thought-provoking post Custard, thanks...very timely.

 

I look forward to reading your future musings and hope you use the thread however you wish, and also get some interesting replies :)

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Hahaha. Well I found the original thread and people's responses, no offence but I didn't find the post that inspiring or anything, the best part was this:

 

"People spend the whole of December stumbling round in a mulled wine-blurred trance, saying to each other: "Do you feel Christmassy yet?" "I don't know, do you?"

 

I lol'd! But you didn't write that, so meh. Probably best to let this thread die because as you can see, nobodies going to just read random opinions that are paragraphs long, just reply in the thread it's relating to like everyone else does.

Let's see some more musings!

Dude, if you have thoughts on that kind of thing, hwy don't just you reply to the person's post and have a debate or something there? :/

True. Perhaps that's better than being labelled a troll.