I will be honest with you. Holidays, especially
Christmas, is depressing for me. Christmas is the worst as I can make it
through the other holidays without much stress and depression.
So, your question for me is, why is Christmas depressing
for you. Here are my responses.
I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s where you couldn’t
purchase a Christmas Tree until the 2nd week of December. You never
heard Christmas music until at least the 1st week of December. Today
you see Christmas items in stores in July. You hear Christmas music playing in
October. And when we were kids the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was the big
event of the year before Christmas arrives the next month. But today the big event
in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the very last float which presents
Santa and Christmas.
Then you have the commercialism. Gift-giving for
Christmas has a tradition of being simple and worthy and items a person could
use. Today you have spoiled people, especially kids, who get upset if you don’t
purchase them the most expensive items on the market as gifts. Yeah it
depresses me to no end to spend $50 on an item for a family member only to have
them disrespect the gift and complain why I didn’t purchase them the $100
version of the item. You know what? You don’t want to appreciate my effort, and
the money I spent, to present you with gifts then next Christmas don’t expect
any gifts from me!
I will make it through the Christmas Holiday season for
2017 but I will be sad and depressed. Nothing that several cups of coffee and
lots of chocolate can’t handle.
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