Dear father Christmas, season’s greetings.

Please find hereafter my list of wishes for this Chrismas,

I was not a perfect person this year but I think I wasn’t too harmful to my surroundings.
I suppose I could have done better, so I promise that I will try harder to make this world a better place to live.

I am very concerned with the challenges you are faced with, to satisfy the needs for presents for so many people. When I was born the world counted around 2.7 billion inhab. Today we are more than 7 billions. I wonder how you manage.

So I have decided to help you.
Because of my age, my need for Christmas gifts are close to costless

This is what I don’t need :
No more neckties and no more belts, I have enough.
My shirts and shoes are still good enough to wear next year.
My smartphone and my laptop can last, hopefully, till next Christmas.
I have no use for fancy pens and funny keychains and all material things of the sort
I have a Stock of unread books, so give the one you had for me to that school child that can’t buy it.

Here is what can make me glad :
If the children are glad, then I am be glad
If there’s harmony in the families, then I am glad
If I can be of help to neighbors, village or country, then I am glad
If I can keep my mental and spiritual sanity, and enough physical health, then I am glad
If I give more joy than sadness, more kindness than disdain, more love than hate, then I am glad.

Last but not least.
Because of your severall hundred years of age, I cannot question your wisdom,
but may I share this thought with you.
Nowadays some children are very demanding. They want everything they see.
May I suggest that you limit the number of gifts per child so that every child in the world can get a lil’ something… and it is good that they know the value of quality over quantity.

May I also suggest…
that while in the caribbean, you use donkeys and not deers, to carry your heavy loads. they will better bear the heat, and when you pass in my yard, let them eat some of my grass, that too will make me so glad.

Yours truly,

Me.