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Maybe it’s that I’m in a very strange new enviornment. Maybe it’s that I won’t be going home to my family for christmas. It could even be a temporary hormonal imbalance. Any way you slice it, it seems the christmas cheer has skipped my heart this year.
I just… can’t get motivated into feeling christmas-y. It’s usually my favorite time of the year – christmas lights, all the food, laughter, and good times. How could I not enjoy it? But somehow… it just dosn’t touch me this year. I don’t know why. I’ve bought christmas gifts, and wrapped them up, but this year, there’s no real joy to it – I know the gifts I’ve selected will go over just fine… but I’m not even deriving joy from giving gifts like I usually do.
Anyone else feel like this is a blue christmas? Or am I in the boat of “Smile, and the world smiles with you. Cry, and you cry alone?”
I don’t feel like its christmas time either. We haven’t put up any decorations this year because they are all in the attic and neither of us can get up there to bring them down. So far I don’t have any plans to visit anyone for christmas either since no one has said anything to me about getting together. We will probably do the same thing we did for thanksgiving and sit at home watching tv.
eh…Christmas hasn’t felt all that special to me in years…
to many psycho people running around being rude and annoying….
oh well I guess there’s a point where you grow out of it maybe?
I have the same bah humbug feelings here too. It’s the first holiday season without both my mom nad grandma and I had a very though time last week and was talking pretty low. I’m a bit better now but still just want to get thru the month
frozendragon wrote:eh…Christmas hasn’t felt all that special to me in years…
to many psycho people running around being rude and annoying….
oh well I guess there’s a point where you grow out of it maybe?
Not in CA they never out grow rudness at least not in No CAC’mon peepz, I’ll send you gy’s some Xmas luuuuv, I spent one christmas feeling blue, and then I swore, and made a vow never to feel blue again, if I could help it…. but I’m willing to share, I have had like so many gigs whatching people shopping for christmas, the smiles on their faces watching their children jumping around in exitement, along the way I saw some bad things, like shop lifting, but those were so few compared to the happyness that I chose to ignore them, just take notice to the happy people and feel what they feel,
try not to think of what saddens you, think of……………………(optional, what makes you happy? smell of cookies and milk? smiling faces? lovers? me? haha)
It’s been weird this year. I’m wrapping gifts today and I’m not feeling it either. Maybe because we didn’t have time to decorate this year so the presents are just sitting in the middle of the living room. And I’m stress from shopping (I usually finish much earlier but I’m still having to pick up stocking stuffers) and crowds and the thoughts of traveling…
But it has also been the worst year in terms of cloudy days in 50 years…or so the TV says. I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) so I’ve just been up and down as far as my mood. I have a light box that I use but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything this year.
Jasmine this SAD syndrome is pretty common here, since this time of year we have like 3 hours or less of daylight in the day, actually I got to watch both sunrise and sunset in my lunchbreak the other day (mildly eccadurated)
actually it gets better, there is one day every year that has no sunset, but then again the sun doesn’t rise the next day ( mildly eccagurated, but there are like 10-15 mins between)
dark_zorse wrote:Or am I in the boat of “Smile, and the world smiles with you. Cry, and you cry alone?”
I have to ask, is that a common quote or do you know it from ‘Oldboy’, like I do? 🙂 And as for the xmas thing, I havnt been nuts about christmas for a while, I like a lot of the sentiment that goes with it but think it gets lost too often and the end result is usually unpleasant.
I’m sorry all of you are so blue this Christmas. Christmas isn’t something you out grow, but it is affected by whatever is going on in your life. My Christmas wish is for every one to have a much merrier Christmas next year. 🙂
me, I’d be quite content with skipping from mid-November to February.
I’ve worked retail (general department-type store) for 20 years, so it’s all the crazy shoppers until Christmas and then it’s all the returns. I stopped enjoying Christmas years ago.
Then, some years back, my mom died on Dec 14th. That def didn’t make me look forward to the season. The next year my fave aunt died on Thanksgiving.
I tried to get excited when I bought my own house a couple years ago, “hey, now I can really decorate, nice house, etc…” Well, this week-end I did put some lights outside in the front yard, and hung a wreath on the door. I doubt I’ll do anything else. Bah, humbug.
I should really try to find a new line of work, maybe I’d eventually enjoy the holidays again.
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