Remember When

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You get out of Christmas what you put into Christmas. Make it exciting. Adopt a family of someone you know is struggling. Help make a wish come true. Make it magical again. Give a homeless person a warm hat and gloves.
You still have the Christmas magic in you. You need to let it out.
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Christmas magic when you're a kid comes from the fact that you're extremely naive. Once that's gone it never comes back no matter how hard you try. You have your own kids and you see it happening with them but for you it's mostly just a bunch of work. Christmas is alike heroin. The first high you get with heroin is the best high you'll ever get from heroin. All the rest of the times you do it after that you're just trying to get that first experience again. It's the same with Christmas but no matter how hard you try you can never get that back. You can never be 7 years old again.

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Quote: billryan

You get out of Christmas what you put into Christmas. Make it exciting. Adopt a family of someone you know is struggling. Help make a wish come true. Make it magical again. Give a homeless person a warm hat and gloves.
You still have the Christmas magic in you. You need to let it out.
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Christmas magic when you're a kid comes from the fact that you're extremely naive. Once that's gone it never comes back no matter how hard you try. You have your own kids and you see it happening with them but for you it's mostly just a bunch of work. Christmas is alike heroin. The first high you get with heroin is the best high you'll ever get from heroin. All the rest of the times you do it after that you're just trying to get that first experience again. It's the same with Christmas but no matter how hard you try you can never get that back. You can never be 7 years old again.
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You've never experienced the joy of giving, but it is never too late. All you have to do is believe.