Waiting for Santa...

[Princess Ash]

How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real?
Was it disappointing?
Did you care?
How have you felt about Christmas since then?
Have your views changed?
How?

I was soooo disappointed because that meant no Tooth Fairy, no Easter Bunny, no Disney characters, all dissipated with one answer to "Mom, Santa isn't real, is he?"
"No."
Shattered.
For me, Christmas hasn't been the same. I was no longer excited because I had no one to "wait" for at night. I had no one to ask "Did Santa come?" The innocence of childhood...so easily evaporated. This is the first time in 7-8 years that I truly feel like the Christmas spirit is back in my heart. I've been so excited for Christmas and it is totally living up to this year's expectations! I don't know what it is...but Christmas is with me this year.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real? I asked my mom a few days ago; she said when I was 8 or 9. I believe I didn't "openly" discuss about it with her until I was 11 or 12.
Was it disappointing? Of course. Childhood dreams shattered here.
Did you care? I probably did at the time. Now, not so much.
How have you felt about Christmas since then? Every year, I'm bouncing with spirit. This year, I didn't feel it at all. Until about Friday. I had this research paper that literally consumed a month of my life.
Have your views changed? Yeah.
How? My parents argue about what they got me. Not what Santa got me, but what they got me.​

 

[VolleyballQt07]

How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real?
Was it disappointing?
Did you care?
How have you felt about Christmas since then?
Have your views changed?
How?

what do you mean santas not real? of course hes real! eh! it was a sad day for me. i found out when i was...11. i was disappointed but i got over it. i actually found out that the easter bunny want real first. then i asked about santa. but i find it an advantage cuz you get to go get presents for you sibs and yourself. lol. and its not really a surprise when they wake up on christmas morning. but even it that old saint nick aint real, i still believe in the spirit of santa claus!

 

[marypops!]

eh i don't know... i still get gifts from "Santa" so it hasn't really changed much (this year i got chocolates, a pin, playing cards, DVD and a book) but i do think there used to be a saint called Nicholas who gave presents to the poor and i guess the tradition went on from that but changed to Nicholas living in the North Pole, now called Santa and gives presents to everyone who believes in him by traveling around the world in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. (however that happened i have no idea though)

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

eh i don't know... i still get gifts from "Santa" so it hasn't really changed much

As do I, but this year I got a POTC Calendar from Johnny Depp. ​

 

[CrazyChik]

i found out at 7 but i only told my mother i knew at 10. first she denied he was but i must admit i felt pretty gutted when she confirmed he wasn't real i guess it's just more fun when you believe in him. i didn't really care. i still got the same as when i believed i just didn't try and stay up all night trying to listen for sleigh bells and i learned to appreciate how much money my parents spend on this stuff. before when i thought santa made them i couldnt understand how it could be expensive. since then i've learned that it is the thought and dinner the count! my views haven't changed drastically i just appreciate it all a bit more. and yes i'm still the first up dressed and ready by the lounge door(where the presents are stored) on christmas morning

 

[Mara]

Weeell, my family has kinda always been all like *wink, wink* 'Santa Claus' *nudge, nudge*... like we all know, but we pretend he's real anyway because it seems funny. So, yeah, the other questions don't really apply... I can't remember ever believing he was real.

 

[EeyoreFan1]

I don't remember how I found out, but Christmas isn't fun anymore. I am not at all in the Christmas spirit this year.

 

[Lil_Tink]

Santa is real. Duh.

 

[U Just Got PUNKD]

How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real? 8.. lol =]
Was it disappointing? Very.
Did you care? Yes... No.. Well, maybe. =S
How have you felt about Christmas since then? It wasn't as exciting.
Have your views changed? No.

 

[GirlWithSpunk]

I never believed in Santa.

I always knew it was my parents. I tried with all my heart to make myself believe but it didnt work out.

 

[xxDisneyDancerxx]

How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real?
Was it disappointing?
Did you care?
How have you felt about Christmas since then?
Have your views changed?
How?

I was like in 5th grade or 4th.
I was very disappointed. I never showed it but i was. It was so sad knowing it was all a lie. For a year or two after I would still write letters and be in denial. But my mom refused to take them. But she knows I like to pretend to beleive so she still signs some from him :] It makes me really happy.
Yes I did care. Very Much.
I still have the same love for christmas. Its juat so much more fun getting all excited knowing Santa was coming! But I have little neighbors I usually spend christmas eve with so just pretending with them makes it worth the time <3

 

[Babyjustrun]

I was like 11.
I didn't care, I had always been doubtful because of my older brother.
I realized this when we were going to Woodstock, and I saw my Santa Claus presents in the car, piled up.
I admit, Christmas isn't as fun. But my parents still do Santa.
It was funny:
Last night, when my family was in bed, I was like:
"Mum, don't forget to do the stockings.'
My mother proceeded to tell me that she managed to do it every other year, so she'd get it done.
But I woke up, and went down the old wooden stairs and found the stockings weren't out. My mother was enjoying her coffee (probaby Gerhadelli's). I went back upstairs. She usually did the stockings at night. I proceeded to read a book I got the other night for Christmas. An hour later:
"Mum, do the stockings."
"Sorry honey, Santa's enjoying her coffee at the mo." (she actually said Milk & cookies, but this sounds better)

My brothers friend, his parents initials are SC & MC, so they always signed that on his Santa presents (Santa Claus, Mrs.Claus)

 

[DollfieDreams]

i cant honestly remember when i "stopped believing". ive always been the typical "fairy tales, sunshine and butterflies" girl that tends to believe in anything. santa was one of them. i guess all throughout december, hearing "santa claus is coming to town" and all that other holly-jolly stuff, you tend to start thinking "...well. maybe everyones not all talking about the same guy for nothing, maybe he does exist when you believe in him". so a special corner of your heart starts to believe in something, anything.

but come christmas eve, you sit up until 2:30 in the morning, wrapping presents, writing thankyou notes from santa, taking a bite out of one of the three cookies left on a plate, just so your nephew can wake up in the morning to a surprise. there arent any sleigh bells, its deffinitley not a white christmas, and yet, you still believe "maybe, just maybe". in the morning, all the presents you placed under the tree are still there, the only thing your family cares about is whos kid got more presents and if the turkey is burnt or just perfect, and life continues on. no christmas magic, no christmas joy. the only ones in the house that felt some sort of magic was the kids. i guess i have sort of detatched from christmas since i found out santa wasn't real. keep a good face for the kids, buy presents, eat dinner, and life goes on.

im still waiting for that christmas spirit to come back, maybe it'll bring a christmas miracle with it.

 

[Sparx]

I'm terrified of santa clause.

 

[minniesBFF]

I found out that santa wasn't real when I was...10 i think. It was actually an accident on my parents part. My mom asked me if I liked the necklace she bought me, and it was supposed to be from santa. oops! I was pretty sad when I found out he wasn't real. It was fun to have that something to look forward to. I think christmas has lost its spirit for me. I still get excited and all, but to me it always seems like it comes and goes just like an ordinary day, except you get presents.

 

[disneyangel7488]

I think I was 11, but rather than finding out at one moment, I kind of gradually realized that Santa wasn't real. I mean, my parents never really told me that he wasn't real. As for being disappointed about it, like I said it was a gradual thing so I don't really remember. Christmas isn't as fun anymore, especially when you are working in a department store during the holidays like I have been for the past 3 years. Though, this year I only worked the few days before Christmas so that has kinda made me more in the Christmas mood than I have been the past two years.

 

[Loves Disney]

This editorial sums it up pretty well, don't you think?

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"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank GOD! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I sorda foud out around 8. But when I ask my mom she was like of course santa existed??? She made me feel more sure of it so I started believing again but I guess it just sorda wore off when I got older.?
I was dissapointed... a litte... mostly confused tho?
Christmas of course is not the smae anymore but it is not bad. It's still great just a different kinda great...
My mom still completely acts like there is a Santy still. Like on the little tags on the presents she still puts TO:JENNY FROM:SANTA but aw well it's all in good fun.... tehehehe!!!

I love pretending with little kids tho... it brings me back to the good ol' days...

 

[Sparx]

This editorial sums it up pretty well, don't you think?

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"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank GOD! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

best line ever written.