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Hello members, it's that time of year again when people are running around buying gifts, preparing treats, and making memories.
One memory I remember the most about this time of year is when I was about seven or eight years old, and I had just one question on my little mind. "Is Santa real?" I was a very inquisitive child and went around the entire month asking everyone the question, my uncle, priest, father, mother, and even my teacher (she was so mad when I asked it in the middle of class and clueless me had no idea why). Anyway, when I finally got a strait answer, I wondered why would adults go through such elaborate schemes in order to keep such a little lie from their children.
That's the question I'd like to pose to all of you. Assuming that most parents love their children and want the best for them, why would they go through so much trouble to keep a fictitious character like Kris Kringle alive? Is is just a mean joke? Or something more, like a symbol for something greater than us? Or something else entirely?
Give me your feedback, discuss with each other, and have a great time.
P.S. Happy Holidays
One memory I remember the most about this time of year is when I was about seven or eight years old, and I had just one question on my little mind. "Is Santa real?" I was a very inquisitive child and went around the entire month asking everyone the question, my uncle, priest, father, mother, and even my teacher (she was so mad when I asked it in the middle of class and clueless me had no idea why). Anyway, when I finally got a strait answer, I wondered why would adults go through such elaborate schemes in order to keep such a little lie from their children.
That's the question I'd like to pose to all of you. Assuming that most parents love their children and want the best for them, why would they go through so much trouble to keep a fictitious character like Kris Kringle alive? Is is just a mean joke? Or something more, like a symbol for something greater than us? Or something else entirely?
Give me your feedback, discuss with each other, and have a great time.
P.S. Happy Holidays
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Well, you could go with the Nostalgia Critic's interpretation that once you no longer believe in Santa you can go from being "an audience member" to "part of the show", but though I didn't grow up with Santa, my family doesn't celebrate Christmas, I had a classmates who told me she cried when she found out Santa wasn't real and a childhood friend broke the story to me of how she found out Santa wasn't real, but by the same token we did have the Tooth fairy, and my brother, the Agent Scully of our Mulder/Scully dynamic, figured it out on his own at a very young age, and I, the Agent Mulder, believed in the Tooth Fairy until I was ten, when I lost a tooth at camp and the Tooth Fairy didn't come and I started to have doubts, then my mom and brother broke the news to me. I felt really stupid and gullible for having believed in the Tooth Fairy (and other things), and I do think it's kind of wrong to deceive children like that. If i ever have kids, there will be no Tooth Fairy in my house.