So the holiday is coming. I really don't care. I think I've decided that holidays are kinda phony. If you don't really spend time with your family all year, then why get all sentimental about them at the holidays? I have completely done away with christmas. No more gifts from me , because I'd rather send gifts when I want, when they are needed, and not when someone else tells me that I have to. My two sentences have become a paragraph, and not what I intended, so....
1. Some people thrive on drama, and have the capability to self manufacture in case of a shortage.
2. I loathe drama.
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I was just watching the news on depression at the holidays. I was thinking my love/hate affair with Christmas was about to start.
I don't see a lot of my family on a regular basis and it doesn't bother me at all. My boys can't come in for Thanksgiving for the first time I guess and I'm kind of sad about that. The immediate family is close.
Anyway, have a good non-holiday! And hopefully no drama will be on the menu!
And a happy, greed free, stress free, guilt free holiday season to you.
I think holiday depression starts when people think they should feel one way and they don't. Then they think something is wrong with them. I'm done with that. I'm truly happy most of the time and refusing to feel something false really does lift some kind of burden.
Well then, you'd be happy to know that we're teaching our kids about the holidays mexican style (OK, roman catholic style). Basically no santa and no tree (read: few if any gifts, more giving than getting), but you still are required to visit family. In person. I didn't say it was perfect! But just visiting the family you like is good enough to fulfill the obligation, you just send blessings to the ones you don't like!
Jocie- that sounds like a perfect way to celebrate a holiday. If you must.
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