Christmas is supposed to encourage us to ponder the eternal mystery of our time together by reminding us of how and where our core spiritual belief began.

In that prolonged period of two thousand years, much has happened to alter our perception from the simple style of two millennia ago to the apparently sophisticated setting and times we live in now.

The essential aspect of man that has dictated the wonderful changes is based on the desire for more. It is the building block of every successive generation that assembles for its three score and ten years on this Earth. The need to look round the next corner.

To make it further than the horizon. Capture the moon. This most mesmerizing aspect of the human psyche assures that whatever we want we have the wherewithal to make it come true.

Just a swift perusal of the magnificent obsessions that we have gained and gathered, and magically transformed into normal everyday aspects of our society, offers conclusive proof that we can achieve absolutely anything we set our minds to.

Progression

I am not a philosopher. I would love to possess the ability to delve into the deep recesses of the mind that help create these circumstances of progression.

It would give me enormous personal pleasure to be able to explain to you how an individual manages to cross a barrier previously thought impenetrable by everybody except him or herself.

But the essential beauty of this failing on my part is that it is fully balanced by my complete understanding that I do not have to have the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci or Albert Einstein to be a groundbreaking success during my life.