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Dec 06, 2023, 06:43 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,517
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Originally Posted by NatalieJastrow
Yes. I also wish we could get rid of some of them. I think Thanksgiving per se is really outdated. Where most people today do not have the nuclear family I think it is outdated and nothing more than a day to make a whole lot of people feel bad.
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  Even the sanitized version of the first Thanksgiving we were taught in school was way off the mark. We have too many holidays in this country and like you I wish we could get rid of some of them. And all of them are overly commercialized now. It's about money, more than ever it seems. Stupid Black Friday, sometimes starting it on midnight Friday, to get an early start! Some stores used to open on Thanksgiving in the past too.
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Originally Posted by will19
snip: The main reason why I have holiday depression is because it's supposed to be a joyous time, but instead, I'm just going to be alone, so it doesn't mean anything to me. It's been that way for a long time for me.
I'm retired now but back in the days when I was working it was the worst before the holidays. The constant questions of, "what will you being for the holidays? Will you be with your family"? And then they'd talk about great plans they will be having. Yea, that really makes me feel great about myself! I have my neighbors now but I hardly talk to them. So I guess that would mean less questions for me.
Also, I hate to sound like a "Scrooge", but I can't stand those superficial - "Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year" I get from store clerks and others.
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Well, you KNOW I agree with every word. The phony greetings we do and the words "happy" or "merry" added to almost every holiday is, to me, a form of adult peer pressure. You're supposed to be happy or have a happy time. Sigh....
I get those questions too, not just from store clerks but from other members at the stupid senior center. Everybody is talking about their great plans, trips, grandchildren, none of which I have. In book club last week, they started talking about how great their Thanksgiving was and how they saw their grandkids, etc. My cue to get up and go to the restroom, lol. When I got back it was over. People think everybody's life is like theirs' it seems.
And EVERY freaking year the media shows us footage of people at the airport, as if every person on this planet is headed to the airport to travel for the holidays. Then there's images of smiling families and couples, waiting in long lines and the reporters interview them. They talk about how they are going to see _____ and are excited about it.
Yeah I sound like a Scrooge or The Grinch too (I actually have a small, stuffed Grinch that I got out), but for the love of everything holy, the holidays are NOT GREAT for everyone. And some don't want to be told how they can make it better. They feel bad enough.
 
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