Cold Clear Night and Santa!

It seems kind of funny at times, well mostly once a year or so? But there are little things that sometimes cross my mind, and of course they are at “odd” times. Take last night for example: Christmas eve, I stepped outside to let the Dog out and it was close to Midnight, and for some reason I felt this urge to look up at the sky and see if I could see a Sleigh? Of course I looked up, and of course I was disappointed, but maybe it is the hope that keeps me looking?

Now I am well up there in years, and it has been more then a few since I have even kind of believed in the old guy. But, as I was looking up in the sky I was reminded that I seem to do this almost every year? And this just seems to happen; it isn’t even a thought until after I do it? And when I do this, it isn’t because of some cynical notion that by doing this I will prove the inexistence of this aged story. I think that I do this because deep in my heart there is a part of me that really wants it to be true?

The idea of a Jolly old Man in a Red suit giving away gifts for the pure and simple reason that it may bring a little joy into peoples life that if it wasn’t for this “thought” that most of these people may not see any joy, or more importantly, and I think this may be the real catch for me, but I think it is the belief of Magic? Magic that there is some kind of person who does selfless acts for no particular reason?

In the back of my head I kind of want to believe in the idea of a Santa and all the things that go with him? Belief in a world where there a person who does things like Santa, and who’s “Values” don’t change with any political ideology, or with any social or economic sway. Belief that the base principles that motivated this person have held true for all of these years and continue to remain the same.

Who knows maybe one day I will look up in the sky on a cold December night, right around midnight and I will hear a little jingle and I’ll have to do a double take and I just may see that Sleigh going by in the night. And I will honestly be too shocked to tell anyone.