Credit crunch & Christmas cheer
Nov 27th, 2008 by cwest
The credit crunch has unfortunately seen everyone come to a state of depression; watching everything we take for granted slowly slip away before our very eyes. There’s one thing that always brings a glow and happiness to people’s hearts and that’s the joys of Christmas.
My small market town of Louth has certainly seen its fair share of credit crunch crises, with legendary local shops showing signs of hardships trying to keep their signature businesses up and running. But Christmas shows us times of togetherness and makes us stop to think about the past year, the one’s who we’re closest to and the beckoning call of parties, prezzies and punch, which we all know is sure to come over the next few weeks.
It’s surprising how a little Christmas cheer can put a smile on someone’s face.
I travel back and fourth from University everyday and when I usually come home on the bus, it’s dark and gloomy - but not anymore. I watch in wonder and see all of the beautiful lights and decorations that, you can see, people have spent a lot of time and effort into making.
But to my delight, these decorations have been up for at least a month now. People have decided to divert their own attention from the credit crunch to creating Christmas cheer, in an attempt to spread “good tidings and joy” to everyone.
This has been a great mechanism to really show people the true meaning of Christmas and to show that there is something to look forward to, beyond the doom and gloom.
Whoever decided putting up Christmas decorations early, as a way to cheer people up from the credit crunch, is being held in the highest esteem in my mind. My family also adopted this new idea, as we decided to put our decorations up early too and, since then, everyone around Louth has seemed to do the same.
This innovative idea has taken many places by storm, but I don’t think it’s really had time to be acknowledged. So here there you are. You heard it here first.
Let’s hope the new year brings us more positive global finance for the future and helps everyone to learn how this credit crunch came about and prevent it from happening again.
By Chloe West
