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This is true when we grow up, we perceive everything differently, and so do the holidays.
But I have the opposite situation than the author. I want to celebrate Christmas with my big family in a beautifully decorated house, as in childhood. But in recent years this has not happened. Because my parents always work at Christmas, my brother lives abroad, and I don't have a husband and children to celebrate with. And when my friends tell me how they celebrated Christmas with their family, or when I see their stories on Instagram, I get sad because I don't have that family comfort on holidays. I feel lonely |
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I love holidays i spend it with family members and go out with my brothers.
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I am severly depressed now. I am asked to breakfast with friends tomorrow and got a gift from one friend but i feel really down, How can i survive this xmas here i do not know. everyone where i live are in families |
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When I had no one around for holidays, I volunteered in a homeless shelter on Christmas night and new year Eve or any other holidays etc
There is always someone less fortunate who needs your help on holidays. Or you could have a job where you could choose to work on holidays. Most certainly not everyone has families and many people are in the hospital or shelter or on the streets during holidays. Help them out, that’s how you can cope. |
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I haven't been very excited about the holidays for years. When I was a kid, we decorated, baked cookies, listened to Christmas music and all. I haven't been in the mood for that for ages. With pets, decorating is hard, and I rarely eat sweets, so I don't see the point of baking.
When I lived in the US, I celebrated more. I lived in a city that attracted a lot of people from elsewhere and many didn't go home for the holidays. Therefore, there always seemed to be things going on - pre-Christmas brunch at a local restaurant or friends inviting you over for Thanksgiving. My ex and I usually put up a small tree. When I moved here, my ex and I always had obligations with his family for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. I didn't always enjoy it, though. Some family members didn't seem to approve of me because I was not the traditional Chilean woman they wanted him to end up with. This year, it's just me and my husband. Most people celebrate with family. My husband's not close to his and my family is in the US, so we are kind of left on our own. Even if family were closer, with Covid, it's not advisable. When we lived in the capital we would sometimes get together with neighbor friends for the new year and we'd do gift exchanges around Christmas. Under more normal circumstances, I'd see about taking the train in to get together with a few people and exchange gifts, but these aren't normal times, obviously. My friends and I all have weekends free only, and they have tightened restrictions on the whole Metropolitan Region, where we are locked down on weekends with only one permit to go out. Hopefully, the pandemic will be over in the relatively near future, so I can see friends again. That has been one of the hardest parts of this situation. |
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The whole idea about Christmas is giving and sharing and even being thankful. That is what having the Christmas spirit is all about. This is about celebration and this began to get taken over by commercializing it in order to increase "buying" things that meant increased sales for merchants. This also got taken over when this certain holiday was changed from Christmas to just a simple "Holiday" so as to remove the religious aspect of it.
Whether it be Christmas or Hanukkah or other forms of religious celebrations, the theme is actually the same in that it's the spirit of giving and gathering. It just got marketed and became a time of so many profiting instead of what it was really supposed to be meant for. |
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