Naughty, Nice or something in between?

As this year comes to a grinding halt, we are all being bombarded with messages of holiday spirits, wishes for the holidays and of course, 70 to 80% off sale prices. And then there is the all intricate fabric of  holiday traditions, stories and gifting etiquette that weaves into our daily life whether we choose it or not.

I am guessing most of you are either in the process or finishing up the year end review process. The laborious but necessary chore of recapping what you did, how well you did it and promises of how you will do it better next time around. During the holiday season this process supplants itself everywhere. Kids are pondering over what they did to evaluate their entry into the nice or naughty list, adults going over the same and making resolutions as if they are promising themselves that they will do a better job next time around. And then there are the top 10 lists that weeds out all other non performers  in each of the gazillion categories that the human race can be categorized to.

So how did you fare this year? What rating would you give yourself? Give it some thought. Were you nice, naughty or something in between? The ratings are completely relative, so you have the liberty of making yourself the judge. If you played by the rules, your needs and wants are all in the nice category. If you were a little adventurous, maybe you strayed a little into the naughty territory. But then, kid or adult, all of us have a secret Santa. Be it an elderly obese man dressed in a red suit or an ultimate being with universal authority to judge. For others who do not believe in supreme beings, they let the judging be done by fellow human beings.  

As for me,  I sit on my couch slowly morphing myself into the shape of Santa Clause year after year. One thing I promise to myself is that I will not make a nice or naughty list. My choices are my choices and they may fall into the nice bucket for some and naughty bucket for others.  Conclusion - there is no point in being judged by anyone else who is not in your exact situation that made you do stuff falling in each category.

So let us toast to a happy new year, wishing we stray in between the nice and naughty categories, never even straying into the evil category. We have many troubles in the world and adding more evil into it would be like adding salt to sea water. Wish for something nice, want for something naughty and maybe Santa will grace you with some of both. Wish you a nice nice holiday season and a naughty new year!