Tomorrow is December 21. The day of the winter solstice it is. The night will be the longest and the day, as a corollary, the. shortest. In the day/date itself is thus inured a sense of sorrow, of deep sadness because we always associate the night with darkness, despair, depressed feel, the down and out mood, in brief.
Since 1990 hence, every December 21 is observed what is known as the 'blue Christmas'. Blue as a colour is often associated with grief and sadness. It is also a symbol of the infinite skies and the interminable oceans together creating the indestructible horizon.
In the spoken, the typical native speaker way, version of English, there are, however, very many expressions that indicate the sadness, the blue that we often associate with unstated unhappiness.
December 21 is the day dedicated to the pre-Christmas purging of all these griefs, grievances, grumblings, and so on, hoarded over the year. Rather like the "michchami dukkadam" by the Jain community is this blue christmas day.
Given the twenty-first century unhappiness-es of multiple varieties, such a day is indeed the need of the hour, eh, nay, of every Christmas so that on that day, on December 25, there is sheer happiness everywhere.
Pratima@ New times require new rituals and different paradigms!
For me, however, every twenty-first is always blue as it marks the mensual death anniversary of Papa! I always keep a fast each and every twenty-first.
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