It’s the end of the year, time to unwind, let your hair down, celebrate and party the night away.
What is Christmas without a feast – roast turkey, succulent lamb and gammon, a tinkling of glasses overflowing with champagne and intoxicating spirits, tiramisu and baked puddings, and gifts and presents galore? Oh what a time of indulgence is Christmas, as revellers uncork bottles of bubbly and embrace one another warmly the world over.
The Christmas spirit is so infectious that even non-Christians cannot resist it, and join in the Christmas spirit. While the Christmas spirit is like no other, it has also become so heavily commercialised that it has largely lost its spiritual significance. It has become synonymous with shopping, feasting, merry-making and materialism. It’s all about showering people with…