Metro Merry Christmas from Nigerian Bulletin: Write a Letter to the World!

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‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la…

It has been a pretty interesting year, hasn’t it? A lot has happened in this year that sometimes we wonder if we haven’t unwittingly witnessed ‘action’ for two years crammed in one year. It has been eventful indeed.

For some this year has been the best. For others, it has been terrible. Students of universities who spent the whole year doing a few months in school and spending the rest of the year listlessly at home (thanks to ASUU), this is probably a pretty crappy year.

We read some time this year that Nigeria’s inflation will drop appreciatively, and while I (personally) do not see physical evidence of it, I guess the economic gears are still grinding and soon, we’ll eat the good fruit of our economic reforms. That’s positive thinking right there. It’ll make you happier, and it’ll also make you look forward enthusiastically to the next year.

Even though not many of us can splurge on N225m BMWs, at least we can thank God that our names aren’t on the pages of newspapers and tabloids for the wrong reasons. Sure, not everyone can be a celebrity, but one has to be thankful that you aren’t popular for the wrong reasons.

In this year of party-shifting games, where loyalty now has a price tag (of a few million naira), we have to be grateful that we have family that will never leave us, no matter how many times we let them down. As I read somewhere, “family means no one gets left behind.” Yes, let us be grateful for family this season.

So – while we deck the halls with holly, while we buy those blinking, fluorescent caps for the little ones, while we wine and dine and paint the town red, let us truly feel the joy radiate in our hearts.

Christmas is more than a day – it is a state of mind. It is the gentle, satisfied realization that as the year draws to an end, God has been with us, giving us the best gift of all: the gift of love. And hope. As long as we have love and hope, it can only get better.

Of course, this is the season of open letter-writing, and while most of the popular letters we’ve been reading have been filled with slanderous accusations, here’s our opportunity to change things:

If you could write an open letter to the world this Christmas, what would you write?

Season’s Greetings from Nigerian Bulletin.

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