Oh Christmas!

Christmas is near. It's just around the corner. It's hiding behind stockings and dancing with sugar plums. It's tantalizing you with a pile of presents under a sweet-smelling tree.

It's luring you in. Can you feel it? That pull. It's a yearning that you can't deny. Holidays!

"All this holiday cheer/ Heaven knows where it goes/ But it returns every year." -Peppermint Winter, Owl City

So where does the holiday cheer go every year?

Do we pack it away with the boxes full of ornaments, lights, and garlands? Is it thrown out with the brown, sickly tree? Is it shoveled aside with the snow?

Or do we willingly leave it and move to our next task?

Why can't we keep holiday cheer? Why can't it be a year-long cheer? Something that we have with us all year long, something that we never completely lose?

Why can't we all just be happy the rest of the year?

So this, here's a Christmas present to others and a New Year's resolution to everyone else.

Don't lose your cheer this year. Keep it with you. You'll be happier...and so will everyone around you.