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nonightowl · Nov 23, 2022, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by rdgrad15

I agree with you that a good holiday is one where no one fights and Christmas is no longer my favorite holiday. I used to love Christmas as a kid due to the gifts and seeing the decorations up. I still do like seeing other people's lights but I don't like decorating myself. You'd be surprised how many arguments I've seen over decorations especially when they don't work. It is so petty and trivial and there's so many other things to be more concerned about. I've also seen people get offended when they didn't receive anything or not what they wanted.

Also the forced happiness and commercialism as well as unnecessary stress and witnessing arguments are what made me dislike the holidays and that goes for other holidays as well. I agree they are just lonely now and it really shows among others and it becomes extremely obvious that the happiness is forced when the holidays end and people fully admit to being so glad it's all over and genuinely seem happier and calmer when January rolls around.

Well the first hurdle is tomorrow....No turkey for me even though I like it. It reminds me too much of what I've lost.

I'm having fish.

I was thinking about how when I was a kid, how upset it made me when we "couldn't afford" a Christmas tree anymore at one point. My parents were always penny pinching and one year they said it's just too costly. They said it's a waste of money to spend it on something we throw out on New Year's. At the time, it was important and I thought isn't that what we're supposed to do???

Okay now I get it. But I'm 61 now. Big difference from 11, LOL.

At first, people are happy in January.....until the bills come.

People certainly drive faster and are so impatient now, more than the rest of the year.