There have been several versions of A Christmas Carol on this year. I like the version with Alastair Sim. It was on yesterday.
As I was watching it I thought about how the term “Scrooge” has become linked with being miserly. Somebody that doesn’t give away money, that is mean. Look it up in a dictionary.
But in the story Scrooge has an epiphany. He throws money at Christmas. He buys the biggest bird in the butchers and gives it away. He lived the rest of his life celebrating every day as though it was Christmas.
It’s interesting that we have come to identify Scrooge with the “before” and not the “after”. We seem to do that so much. We penalise people for what they did 25 years ago.
I want to be like Scrooge – I want to be a real Scrooge, somebody that changes their life for the better as the get older.