Thanks for posting this Hankster- yes! I've been randomly bursting into tears for the last few days. Today has been one of those days where the world is too noisy and too bright and too itchy and nothing fits. You've helped to make sense of why.

I think I can just about bear the disappointment of my life (relationship breakdown, single, no prospects of that changing, financially dependent on my parents at 30, I could go on and on...) when the lives of everyone else around me are ticking along at 'day to day'. But the holidays throw up this huge contrast. All around me the people I know are going on holiday (me- no money but more importantly noone to go with), planning weddings, taking their babies to the park, gathering with their families for Easter- and I literally can't bear it. I have turned into a raging seething ball of envy and I literally don't recognise the horrible person I've become- completely unable to feel any joy for anyone else.

Of course the holidays also throw up comparisons with past holidays when I was with my partner/had a 'better life' (was it?)/more to look forward to.

And I'm crying again. Oh dear. And T's away- she gets a family, and a holiday... and so it starts again.