Christmas

For Christmas this year, they want something special. They all get nice things and wrap them up and put them under a real Christmas tree. Everyone wants this to be the year that they have a real Christmas. Then in the day they were going to celebrate, their dad comes home drunk and ruins it all. He smashes everything they worked for into unrecognizable smithereens. This reminds me of how we can work so hard for something, put all kinds of time and energy into putting it together... then ruin it in one foul swoop.