A Girl’s Notebook :)

When we’re young, we always hang our Christmas stockings and wait for dear Santa Claus to fill it with gifts. More often than not, we caught our parents secretly placing our Christmas wishes into those big stockings the night before Christmas. So, when we woke up and greet Christmas day a good morning, we found our stockings filled with gifts.  Then we knew that Santa stopped by our house last night, gave our gifts for being good boys and girls the whole year.

To this day, Santa Claus is still a significant symbol of celebrating Christmas. I received this email this morning and I would like to share it with you.

 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897 We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

“Dear Editor–I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?”
Virginia O’Hanlon, 115 West Ninety-fifth Street

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I watched Betty La Fea in Channel 2 the other day. It stars Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz. There was a scene when Armando Solis(John Lloyd Cruz) is sharing with Betty(Bea Alonzo) the places he went to celebrate Christmas in the past years. He also told her that when he was young, he used to write his  Christmas wish on a paper. He said that his father will grant almost everything in the list, except for his number 1 wish. Betty then asked Armando what was it. But Armando just shrugged his shoulders and told Betty that it doesn’t matter anymore.

Then, it’s Betty’s turn to share her past Christmas celebration. Betty had wonderful Christmas with her family. Then, she asked Armando if he can spend his Christmas with her and her family. Then, Armando hugged him tight. He told Betty that it was his number 1 wish, “to spend Christmas with a family.” Something that his father cannot fulfill.

I really like their love team. I have admired John Lloyd Cruz as an actor and he really looks good in the big screen. He’s a very good actor. He can play each role given to him as if he’s really that “person.” I remember one time, when he played the role of man who has cerebral palsy. That in spite of it, that person became successful. That’s about John Lloyd.

Well, everyone of us has our own Christmas wish. As for me, I just wish that my daughter will have good health and many blessings for me my family.