Christmas should go beyond a TV commercial to...ehm...Coca Cola where people are artificially happy, gathered around an abundant dinner table, laughing with their pearly white teeth and looking impeccable in their holiday outfits. Yet, one would be a hypocrite to hide the fact that even if it's due to an efficient marketing strategy which imbedded in our brain this dopamine triggering image or simply due to the neverending quest to find happiness, we all, secretly, want that. We want people to spend time with, people to laugh with, good food and beautiful clothes in a celebration of what is a holiday that makes the rat race worthwhile.

And I always dreamt not of a white dress necessarily, but of someone to ornament the Christmas tree with. The feeling of belonging to my own little village even if that is a two people village. And someday a kid with pearly whites too who laughs and giggles as he/ she saw Santa around the corner.