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Gifts That Can Become Memories by Victor Epand
It is strange when you think about it, but by the time most of us have become legal adults, then we will have celebrated to one extent or another, no less than eighteen separate holiday seasons.
While not all of those are clear in the memory, because some due to being too young or some because they were not particularly memorable. While there are still some for other reasons that perhaps you do not want to talk about and then some that stand out as particularly happy. There is a special resonance in the mind of a happy holiday season, and even in the recollections of the deadest winters where a white star shines brightly in a cloudy night sky.
If that sounds sort of sentimental, then so be it. A good Christmas is worth three dead winters, and even the memories of poor or mediocre holidays are lost in the brightness of the good. We remember times in our lives for their emotional impact, and while it may some times be true that bad memories leave a stronger after taste than those happy ones. It is also true that good memories help sustain us through bad times. In that sense, every bad memory is suffused with some thing good.
Of course, gifts act as touching stones for many holiday memories. For instance, you probably remember a particular Christmas as the year you got your first bike, or the first year you did not believe in Santa Claus. Those memories some times take up all the space in our minds regarding a particular event, and remain with us as touching stones to the past.
On the other hand, some gifts evoke memories that in turn lead us back in time to the happy events of the Christmas to which they are related. These gifts are keep sakes in the truest sense of the term, because they are in a way like keys to the powerful memory centers of our minds and spirits. Such keep sakes do not necessarily have to be the most expensive gifts of a particular year, however.
My grandmother still has the quilt her grandmother made her that was designed with her name embodiered on it that she received for her third Christmas. While another friend of mine, a man with children of his own, has kept the metal piggy bank he received from a favorite uncle for over twenty years. Gifts from siblings are also a popular keep sake, especially for younger brothers and sisters in their formative years, who crave their older sibling’s approval and affection.
These gifts may be simple or they may even be homemade, but they retain the glow of arrival in someone’s estimation, the sense that they have finally managed to impress their role models. That is a powerful totem to carry into adulthood. So gift givers, especially siblings, godparents, friend, and even grandparents, should consider memory gifts that have been personalized carefully, so that they remain fresh and treasured by the recipient for years to come.
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