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Christmas

Bluesky555

Hi. Is anybody else really struggling with the prospect of Christmas? I find Christmas tough usually anyway but this year I really really don't want to be put under lots of pressure to take part. It's making me so nervous and it's still two days away!

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  • I think it is a deeply instinctive, pagan thing to put up lights and to celebrate, otherwise there would be terminal SAD everywhere. Yet I have met people who hate the sun, one I know moved permanently to Scandinavia for example. It's a loaded time because the festival date is a constant every year, unlike the case with, say, Easter. 

    Both my parents have passed and I get lots of little flashback memories of Christmasses past, which is sad in its way. At the same time I don't miss the downside of these, which were often ruined by certain members of the family getting drunk and then saying things. An old friend I stayed with on one or two occasions managed not so long ago to drink herself to death, too.  But there are Christmasess present and future too, and new ways to enjoy the biggest gift Christmas can bring: a holiday. 

    Christmas isn't Christmas without a good little spooky film, so for those with similar propensities, here is one for you:

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156306233183143&id=639043142

    I saw it on the early 90's I think, one Christmas Eve. 

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  • I think it is a deeply instinctive, pagan thing to put up lights and to celebrate, otherwise there would be terminal SAD everywhere. Yet I have met people who hate the sun, one I know moved permanently to Scandinavia for example. It's a loaded time because the festival date is a constant every year, unlike the case with, say, Easter. 

    Both my parents have passed and I get lots of little flashback memories of Christmasses past, which is sad in its way. At the same time I don't miss the downside of these, which were often ruined by certain members of the family getting drunk and then saying things. An old friend I stayed with on one or two occasions managed not so long ago to drink herself to death, too.  But there are Christmasess present and future too, and new ways to enjoy the biggest gift Christmas can bring: a holiday. 

    Christmas isn't Christmas without a good little spooky film, so for those with similar propensities, here is one for you:

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156306233183143&id=639043142

    I saw it on the early 90's I think, one Christmas Eve. 

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