My Christmas wish for everyone

Dear all,

It is close to Christmas and I want to write my wishes at this time of year, and everyday of the year for that matter.

I wish food and drink for the hungry, a roof for the homeless, good health, prosperity to everyone. Most importantly to all who bear anger of any form, hurt, pain in their heart, may this Christmas wash it all away. I want all this to be replaced by peace, love, forgiveness and happiness.

I would like to say that I have long forgiven those who hurt me this year. Alexander Pope said, to err is human to forgive divine. I quoted this to someone back in June this year. When you forgive you let go of the past, one cannot change the past but it can change the future. Moreover to forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, one receives untold peace and happiness (Robert Muller). We are all human we all err, we all fall especially in our most vulnerable of moments, weak moments. But we learn from those mistakes, learn from the suffering that followed our errs, the pain, anguish and guilt in causing suffering to those involved. It has been a difficult year for me but I have grown and learnt and I can say I love those people I doubted more than ever before. I have learnt to cherish every moment I spend with my dearest ones, family, friends. Everyone is special to me in his or her own way. I have grown stronger, moved on, matured. To those who think I hate them, I do not hate anyone no matter how much pain and hurt they have caused others. But they must move on, start afresh. I bear no hatred nor grudges towards anyone. What happened happened and it is all in the past now never to be repeated again. I have moved away from a horrible time in my life which occurred earlier this year and have no intention to go anywhere back there. Nobody, no one will take me back. Furthermore my word of advice is to be careful who to trust. Trust can take years to build but only seconds to destroy and a long time to rebuild if you are fortunate enough to be granted a second chance. In all of this I want to say, think before you speak, before you confide in anybody, think before you act for actions made on impulse may be regretted for the rest of our lives. I have also learnt not to take anyone, nor anything for that matter, for granted. For only when we lose those precious to us we realise that we cannot live without them, that they played an important and vital role in our lives, that they were always there and now they are gone from us, perhaps even forever.

I have achieved some too this year, I have qualified as Fitness Instructor thanks to the great help and teaching by Celine Fenech Adami and Gillian Grech, made new friends in the process, Leanne, hope you are reading this, Kerstin too, Michael (Hughes), passed two EU exams, and started reading an ACCA degree and successfully passed my first ACCA exam which I have started reading. I feel I have learnt some more on photography, and next year my wishes are to go to South Africa, qualify as personal trainer, work on underwater photography and complete and write more ACCA exams.

All I want for Christmas is peace, love, success, good health and happiness for everyone.

Merry Christmas from my heart.

stef