Just that.
I’ve personally been hit by some unexpected shit, this week, particularly financially, but hearing the neighbours up the street party it away, all day and all night, yesterday (and yes, I really, really considered trying to crash it. Just ended up feeling more alone, though, lol), reminded me, perhaps it did in the same way as one of you the other day, that this is a time that really brings people together, and is about far more than spending money and decorative seasonal tat. Today, in Aus, so happens to be the solstice.
I don’t know “where” I’m going with things, and I don’t know what my Christmas will be like (thrifty, if nothing else, lol), but I sincerely hope you all have good, relatively smooth and unstressful Christmases (or whatever you celebrate) and New Years. Remember what the holiday was supposed to be truly about.
That’s all. Keep it real.
Sorry to hear that, bro. Keep your head up. 💙
Yeah, I feel that entirely. Unfortunately this time of year really reinforces the feelings of loneliness, poverty, inadequacy and (for me) family tension, that are sort of avoidable, for most of the rest of the year…
It’s not Christmas itself that I dislike - it’s my own experiences of it each year. Which I keep trying, and somehow failing, to get away from
But Christmas lights are definitely awesome! I should do as you did. 🙂
I intend to force myself to go to the city (like a two hour round trip) as much as possible, in the next four days, not to spend money, but just to try to be a part of all that.
Anyway, hope things look up for you soon, bro. All the best.
I'm a couple thousand miles from family right now so it's a bit surreal. I've learned to choose happiness from a previous experience.
That's a good idea to see the city. Just walk thr streets and look at stuff.