People whose birthdays fall on Christmas –just how do they do it? How do you share a ‘happy birthday’ with Jesus?

If your ‘BD’ is on December 25th and you’re not Jesus, you should just accept that ‘big is big’ and go find a new birth date for yourself.

Sharing a Birthday with Jesus is simply not a good idea because then, it makes singing of the Happy Birthday song a complex affair.

Because how do you sing Happy Birthday to someone born on X-mas? I’m still trying to figure;

We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Sandraaa ..!!

We wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Sandraaa !!

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Sandraaa !

So kids, make sure to avoid being born on Christmas day!

That said, stop bragging about how many X-mases you’ve ‘chewed’. The fact is that there has been only one Christmas –the first one. Christmas is supposed to be Jesus’ birthday and people are only born once. Even Jesus was born only once.

So we have only one true Christmas. The rest are but just birthday anniversaries.

Also, I find the essence of this day to be one big paradox. Because the story of Jesus’ birth and subsequently Christmas teaches us that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated inside every home.

This is the time of year when suddenly you start to get bombarded with formulaic and unoriginal Christmas and New Year’s messages from people that are hardly friends. It’s the same message you will get from 30 different sources, all claiming copyright to it.

This time of year fills people’s hearts with kindness, forgiveness, charity and child-like pleasure. It’s the only time in the year when men and women unanimously open their clogged hearts and start to treat those below them with some respect and love, knowing full well that they are both passengers on the bus to the grave.

When it’s not Christmas time, this humility vanishes from most folks’ hearts.

But Christmas should be about considering the needs of little kids and remembering the weakness and loneliness of the ageing. So go feed a hungry mouth. Clothe the naked. Forgive the guilty. Welcome the unwanted. Care for the ill. Love your haters. And do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Finally, Christmas is called the Holiday Season these days. But good Christians still call it Christmas and flock to churches on this day. The Jews call it ‘Hanukkah’ and flock to their synagogues to celebrate it, while atheists go to parties and drink.