Santa’s Coming To Town
He’s Real, Let’s Keep It That Way
This article was written by Lonestar Writer, Natalie Lehmann.
Santa Claus is real. To clarify, the overweight-white-bearded-sleigh-riding version isn’t, but the generous man providing hope for a nicer humanity is. In the midst of Roman Empire madness, St. Nicolas of Bari stood generous and empathetic to all bad in the world. He helped young women out of poverty, saved children, and get this, gave people gold through their chimneys and provided children with gifts. Sound familiar yet? As Nicholas the Wonderworker evolved in Christian history, he arrived in contemporary America with extensive marketing, Mrs. Claus by his side and Rudolph leading the way. Santa is now one of the most vital parts of grasping the Christmas spirit.
Some could say that’s an exaggeration. Of course there’s Christmas spirit without Santa! But not really. Think of your favorite Christmas song — Santa mention, probably. Elves? Maybe. Anything that could most definitely be related back to Santa? For sure. Santa is a part of X-Mas and will forever stay an essential, so why start telling the kids the truth now? They’ll inevitably find out from just naturally growing older and learning about how the world works. The truth is, children don’t need to know how the world works yet, they’re kids, keep them that way for however long possible. Santa keeps children from finding out that Santa himself isn’t the biggest lie in the world, there’s a lot worse things out there in the world and it basically just goes downhill from learning Santa isn’t the one eating your cookies.
While you could also argue that you shouldn’t tell kids Santa is real because it’s a lie, let’s face it, parents are already hypocrites, so why not add one more white lie (pun intended) that adds to children’s innocence and keeps them good up to the 24th night of December. A parent could be afraid that their children will resent them for lying to them when they finally find out that Santa unfortunately hasn’t been dropping through their chimneys year after year, but really, kids will understand and be happy that their parents kept their childhood full of fun and happiness that a Santa-present Christmas contains.
In the state our world is in at the moment, kids need nothing more than the holiday spirit to keep them focused on the good in the word. Even adults have started to watch the Hallmark Channel early. COVID madness and the election craze has put a damper on everyone’s moods, keeping Santa alive is just another aspect to bringing joy and merriness to December.
There are many new parts of society, like social media, that point to children losing their fantasy filled innocence earlier. Santa encourages kindness and generosity that ultimately builds kids’ morals and helps parents teach their kids how to be good. Along with that, imagine how many Santa interpreters would be out of work if parents didn’t want their children to get their picture taken with them. Not to mention the elves that would go unemployed in the North Pole — especially with global warming, Santa’s homeland needs to at least have a stable economy if their igloos will be melting come spring.
Santa Claus will be riding into the season early this year. 2020 has almost come to an end, but Santa’s reign will not be closing out with it. Mr. Claus is vital to kids’ childhoods and even to adult’s adult-hoods — without a naughty or nice list, children would wreak havoc and without cookies and milk, parents wouldn’t have a midnight snack. Santa’s real, and that won’t be changing anytime soon.
