SMP. Ano ka mo?

Christmas season is a time for sharing, a time for joy, a time of love and a time for peace. Happiness is one great thing about this season which everyone is supposed to have but not everyone gets. For some reasons, every people have a different definition of being HAPPY. Some people needs a lot or needs big things to make them happy but some only need those simple or little things in order for them to be happy.

Now, let me just share to you one reason why some people are not so happy during Christmas season. This is common to teenagers or young adults. These people are sad somehow because they are loveless or don't have any love life, in short, no girlfriend/boyfriend during the season. They feel they belong into the imaginary association which they abbreviate as SMP or "Samahan ng Malalamig ang Pasko." This thing started or one's been popularized from a TV commercial here in the Philippines few years back then. They'd think not having a partner at all is one of the coldest Christmas for them to have.

Few years ago I used to feel somehow a little the same as those people felt but as time have passed, I didn't feel the same way again.  It isn't supposed to be like that. I came to realize that as a young adult whether I have a partner or not, I always have all the reason to feel warm and loved during the season and that having a girlfriend would not define my happiness during Christmas time. I kept in mind that I am deeply loved by God and that He has blessed me with a lot of blessing in which I must count on. Rather than looking at what I don't have, I must look on to what I have and what is around me. My friends,  my family, and all those people who matter, I have all these people who loves and cares for me with all that I am and all that I'd be. Though were not rich, we don't have much, but at least we don't have none. Besides I have what is priceless, which matters the most, what those significant people have for me and what I have for them. We shared happiness, joy, peace and love which are enough for me to say that I am proudly still a member of SMP last Christmas BUT with a different meaning, "Samahan ng Masasaya ang Pasko." In fact, last Christmas was one of the best Christmas that I ever had. 

We must bear in minds and in our hearts the reason for this season, it's Him. Yes, it's our Lord Jesus Christ. Spread His LOVE, spread His word.