Many years ago, even in the recent past, people looked up to Christmas with high expectations, with enthusiasm, delight and relish.
Christmas is a festival almost all participated in, Including Christians and non Christians, even those who did not know the justification for the purpose of Christmas prepared for Christmas with dexterity.
Preparations for Christmas normally commence in January every year with the low income earners being part of ‘susu’ where compulsory savings are made, a sort of lottery that is won about October, to enable participants to use proceeds from the savings to make Christmas procurements.
Others devised various Christmas saving strategies annually to ensure that the Christmas celebration did not elude them.
What is required in circumstances of this nature is determination, circumspection, introspection and most importantly, inward looking.
Not minding the intractability of the apparent hardship, not looking at the apparent insurmountability of the challenges, the 2024 Christmas must be celebrated and in grand style.
This transliteration will be very relevant here: “Our stomach does not say what it eats”. The implication of this is that you can always manage your kitchen. What you call your dog is what it answers.
One of the ways out of this quagmire is that the children are prepared from now to accept that frozen fish has just been discovered to be more nutritious than chicken and that rice contains the same carbohydrate as Yam.
Depending on family peculiarity, develop conversations where we also introduce dressings and old school wears as being more fashionable among several other themes.
If well managed, the 2024 Christmas may end up being very exciting as many wealthy people in our various communities are planning many empowerment programmes that will benefit those who are lethargic about going home.
Get ready because our people say that if you don’t go home as a result of the fact that you have made it, you go home because it’s been awhile since you went home last.
Written by Sir Kingsley Ogba Nwokoro
