I'm feeling it. Concentrating on enjoying the change of the season, the early darkness, seclusion, and the burst of light from candles, Christmas lights, lighted trees in windows. I'm listening to Christmas music while I work in the afternoons. I have hope. 🌟
Granted the world is burning down around us…. But I feel like it’s also just off bc of the late thanksgiving. It’s like Im almost ready to start easing into Christmas time but it’s also already the 9th!
I felt this way last year. I feel like it's kind of communal, kind of personal, and if you feel either way you'll probably have a decently large group of people that will agree.
I'm still looking forward to family time and putting out my Santas and snowmen (who get to stay out all winter). I will do that next week, so starting a little later is helping. But the whole shopping feel is off for me. Not interested. Also, hearing Christmas music back in November is a turn-off.
I don’t think Christmas ever stayed the same for me as I went through different periods of my life and different seasons of life, the excitement and the traditions have changed. I don’t look at it negatively, although I do look at it through a different lens.
This holiday season is feeling more like a time to rest and... Hide? From the world and all the chaos. It's not feeling so much like a time to be merry, that's for sure.
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Must be all that existential dread.
Friends excluded ofc, stuff with all of them's always good