Table set. Empty chairs. Broken Relationships Separate Families. Christmas, the time of celebration and reunion, is stained with nostalgia, sadness, anguish, restlessness, the brightness of these dates no longer exists. We no longer feel joy in our chair.
No, there are no flashes because someone is missing, because everything has changed so much over the years that we have lost the wonderful illusion that invaded us as children, we no longer maintain the innocence that at the time made us enjoy every little detail, because everything was full of the unwavering magic whose grudges and absences of the present do not allow us to enjoy.
- Why are we overwhelmed by this sadness right now? When the festivities approach and the preparations.
- Gifts.
- Decoration and choice of a menu begin.
- That’s when memories fly and fly in our minds.
- We can’t help it.
- The power of the Christmas spirit makes us charge more for absences.
- Whether voluntary or involuntary.
How many of us are on the 24th?In the face of these questions, empty chairs inevitably appear, empty chairs that correspond to people who are not, people who have left or deceased people, memories of times lived, times that make us feel happier, more realized, more for ourselves than those who will come, of course, those of today.
A suffering that one would keep anesthetized, asleep from everyday life. And yes, empty chairs hurt, our eyes fill with tears, our souls with pain, and contain hugs that lack the body to cling to.
Yes, they hurt. But in these empty chairs there is a space to hug, accept and name without fear, I say without fear because we cannot forget that even though we we weep through the voids, the occupied chairs deserve our smile.
Christmas is a contradiction in itself. The magic that generates moments of sharing and encounter goes hand in hand with the anguish of absences, nostalgia for the deceased or resentment for an empty chair chosen or provoked by the shifts of the year that ended and the years that have passed.
In this sense, it is very important among those present to speak naturally, that this feeling is removed from the heart, otherwise the shadow of the empty chair will be contagious in a contradictory environment and an atmosphere of broken words will be created.
We cannot forget that there are empty chairs, but there are also occupied chairs, full of presence and love, not all occupied chairs probably give us well-being, but that should not diminish the possibility of enjoying people in the chairs. We like It is important to remember that life, by definition, will separate us at some point from the chairs we love today.
So on these dates, positive for some and negative for each other, we cannot forget to toast all that is offered to us, because it is always good to raise the glass and give thanks for the fact that our hearts continue to beat. Give peace to the busy, chairs and remember the good times when the empty chairs were among us.