Last night, my wife and I watched Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer on CBS. For both of us, this has always been a holiday tradition.
For me it was always, The Little Drummer Boy, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that were my favorites as a kid, and even as an adult.
However, to me there has always been something special about Rudolph.
As I watched it last night, I thought about how it really was one of the first cartoons that really looked at how we are judged and forced into being identical.
No one, except for Clarice Hermey and Yukon Cornelius were willing to accept Rudolph in the beginning, even his own father and Santa rejected him at first.
This was long before the concept of bullying became a battle cry, yet what is sad in a way, how little time has changed.
We still have children bullied and rejected by family and friends alike.
Yet what is heart warming is that Rudolph is still there for all the misfits as he was 48 years before.
Rudolph stand up to the test of time, because he still shows us that we all can belong. No matter how bad your day is, or week or life Rudolph shows that we all can fit in.
So remember to have a.
For me it was always, The Little Drummer Boy, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that were my favorites as a kid, and even as an adult.
However, to me there has always been something special about Rudolph.
As I watched it last night, I thought about how it really was one of the first cartoons that really looked at how we are judged and forced into being identical.
No one, except for Clarice Hermey and Yukon Cornelius were willing to accept Rudolph in the beginning, even his own father and Santa rejected him at first.
This was long before the concept of bullying became a battle cry, yet what is sad in a way, how little time has changed.
We still have children bullied and rejected by family and friends alike.
Yet what is heart warming is that Rudolph is still there for all the misfits as he was 48 years before.
Rudolph stand up to the test of time, because he still shows us that we all can belong. No matter how bad your day is, or week or life Rudolph shows that we all can fit in.
So remember to have a.
