Today our M.D. issued a greeting to all staff via corporate email:
SEASON'S greetings
& Best Wishes for a
Happy New Year!
I pondered upon the greeting and, I wondered to myself, 'Now what Season would that be..hmm..?'
I know that Christmas is round the corner.. as does everybody; I also know that New Year follows a week later.. but 'Christmas' is not mentioned in the greeting. That the case, then his greeting wouldn't be a Christmas greeting! Cos if it's a Christmas greeting, surely it would be mentioned.
After all, what's in a word.. it's not like the word Christmas would offend anyone, or any group in particular, right? Or that the religious intonations attributed to the word Christmas is so feared and offensive to certain groups of people to cause our M.D. to be senselessly mindful of his choice of words? Nahh.. he is the M.D., mind you! Not any Tom, Dick and Harry can be MDs! It takes 'brain' to be one.. I mean, brain that really can function; not only a functioning one cos any chimpanzee's brain can also do just that, albeit with minimal effort. Really!
Or, could it be possible that our M.D. was politely advised, by his team of 3 corporate wisemen of the east, against using the word 'Christmas' because, in the modern world, 'Season' has been accepted as the appropriate substitute for what was once a religious event? Now I try not to concede to the idea that someone as highly regarded as our M.D. would subject his esteemed reputation to a compromising position and adopt his corporate advisors' recommendation to drop the word 'Christmas' from a 2,000 year old greeting, which the whole world, consisting of all types of races and religions, has known, for a fact, that the Chirstmas celebration is always greeted with "Merry Christmas"!
Naah! He is our M.D.!
