Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

For this year, can I have something I want and badly need? I have had enough of socks, and chocolates for the special day, they bore me and don’t interest me in the slightest.

If you are going to give me 1 wish, please can I have my health back, as I was at 14, nimble, skinny, able to kick a watermelon off someone’s head with a spinning back kick? Fit and healthy, and not worrying about death every day for once.

I don’t want to be in bad health, on the slow windy road where everything just gets worse and nastier. The bitter taste of medication is making my stomach rot, and the dozens of pills just give me brain ache. I want to be healthy again, I know it is a lot to ask, as you never realise how much you will miss it once it has gone, but to be healthy and fit again is all I really want.

Sod the whisky and the film I watch before arguments over wars and politics. I hate drunken arguments on Christmas, and I hate watching Eastenders just because my sister and mother love to add 2 hours of misery into a day that doesn’t deserve it.

Can I please just have a present, a hug wrapped in a cracker, and once pulled a splatter of magic, and my health given back to me over turkey and Yorkshire puddings?

I have written to you every year for the past decade or so always asking for this one thing, but I never get what I want. I don’t give a toss about electronic gifts and Amazon gift cards. If I could buy my health back on the Amazon store I would have done but it is just not for sale.

So Santa, can you please grant me this one wish? I never asked to be like this, I never wanted to suffer the pain and mental strain of just getting through another day. 

If you cannot grant me this one thing, then I beg of you to just let me live the rest of my life in sweet vivid opiate dreams forever. For if I cannot live out my life as I once did then what is the point in being awake when I can have everything, I want during the night time asleep?

Is this too much to ask or am I destined to get socks and sweets for Christmases to come until I die?

Please Santa, grant me one last happy day.

Rob

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