Christmas Week

Christmas week has finally arrived;

Its 23rd of December,2018&just 2 more days to go for the arrival of Christmas day, but the city(kolkata)is already in a festive mood,hanging lights&decoration,making Christmas trees&Santa Clause as well. The market is full of variety of cakes, pastries&bread,but the speciality is plum cake.
Way before the day of Christmas,the Christmas celebration has begun. Different beautiful lights&equipments related to lights are just in boom in the market.Items related to decoration & furnishing homes&offices,streets&lanes are getting sold&bought efficiently.In the day,everything seems normal&dull,but as the darkness creeps in,the prime&youth ceremony starts transforming into magnificent&colossal.Crowd containing different kinds of innovative people located in some distance,exhibiting their different kinds of talents&earning money or claps.Those twinkling lights,loud street music&that immense crowd,subsidise the chill of environment,making it suitable for gratification&amusement.
Though the whole city enjoys it but the area like New-Market,Park Street, St Paul's Cathedral church etc have it's own festive glimpse.Its in the list of the leading city in India,celebrating Christmas with much pomp&joy.The shimmering light,christmas song,rock music,scrumptious foods,aroma of fruit cakes,highly spirited people, gifts&presents makes the city of lights& joy,more brighter happier&livelier during the period of Christmas.The occasion doesn't starts&end on25th december but stretched from may be the second or third week of december to the night of 1st january,the arrival of new year.
Though,some people,specially of older generation,says'why to celebrate christmas inspite of not being a christian?',the answer I always try to input is,not being a christian doesn't really mean,not to celebrate Christmas.At least, I being a muslim,accepts Jesus Christ(Isa AS)as a Messenger of God,in the list of 1lak24thousand messengers & also believes in mother Mary as(Mariyum AS) so is it really object-able to celebrate His birthday?,the answer I believe is No,if we celebrate simply with full diligence,without creating problems for others.
-Fauzia Afreen