Festive holiday season 2006
Hello everyone!
Wishing you, and all you hold dear, a very happy ____[insert holiday name here]_____.
May the new year bring you peace, joy, happiness, and good fortune.
May your dreams become achievable goals, and your nightmares powerless.
May you be brave enough to accept the goodness in yourself, and share it with others.
May you be treated by others as you wish to be treated.
And, most of all, remember that life is not a spectator sport. Get out there and live!
Be well, friends!
So, that festive holiday season is almost over for another year. Hooray!
(Ok, apologies in advance to anybody who might be reading this who follows a Bible-based religion.)
Just because I, personally, do not celebrate some guy's birthday on December 25th each year doesn't mean that I'm anti-Christmas per se. I'm all for the concept of being nice to other people (or at least trying to look like it). It would be better if people didn't feel the need to have an excuse to do so. I'd rather it be every day, but I'll take one festive holiday season per year for starters.
This year hasn't been that bad, actually - I've had limited exposure to the crass commercialization I've come to associate with this time of year (a definite advantage to working the early day shift). I haven't been near a 'real' shopping mall in well over two months (the glorious "once was a mall" downtown doesn't count), haven't listened to commercial radio stations since the summer, and tend to fast-forward through commercials as I watch pre-recorded tv programmes.
Over the past week or so, I've had the opportunity to hang out with some really great people. Each occasion was ostensibly to celebrate Christmastime, but it wasn't the fake smarminess (is that a word??) I've experienced more often than not. At each event, people were there because they wanted to be there, were genuinely happy to see other people, welcomed new people into their groups, etcetera. The places were absolutely a-buzz with acceptance and inclusiveness.
Perhaps I'm mellowing over the years, or perhaps it's just me not working in the retail industry for the first time in six years, but I've definitely not felt the pure hatred of this time of year that has enveloped me for the last 30-odd years. (Believe me, hate is a word that rarely surfaces in my vocabulary, but that's what it has always been.) This is a definite move forward in my books, whatever the cause.
I am thankful for my friends who have, in spite of my seasonal grouchiness or downright depression, always been there for me. You guys mean more to me than you probably know. I should probably say that more often than I do.
Anyway, time to go back to bed. I've not had enough sleep.
Enjoy your days, folks!
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Wishing you, and all you hold dear, a very happy ____[insert holiday name here]_____.
May the new year bring you peace, joy, happiness, and good fortune.
May your dreams become achievable goals, and your nightmares powerless.
May you be brave enough to accept the goodness in yourself, and share it with others.
May you be treated by others as you wish to be treated.
And, most of all, remember that life is not a spectator sport. Get out there and live!
Be well, friends!
So, that festive holiday season is almost over for another year. Hooray!
(Ok, apologies in advance to anybody who might be reading this who follows a Bible-based religion.)
Just because I, personally, do not celebrate some guy's birthday on December 25th each year doesn't mean that I'm anti-Christmas per se. I'm all for the concept of being nice to other people (or at least trying to look like it). It would be better if people didn't feel the need to have an excuse to do so. I'd rather it be every day, but I'll take one festive holiday season per year for starters.
This year hasn't been that bad, actually - I've had limited exposure to the crass commercialization I've come to associate with this time of year (a definite advantage to working the early day shift). I haven't been near a 'real' shopping mall in well over two months (the glorious "once was a mall" downtown doesn't count), haven't listened to commercial radio stations since the summer, and tend to fast-forward through commercials as I watch pre-recorded tv programmes.
Over the past week or so, I've had the opportunity to hang out with some really great people. Each occasion was ostensibly to celebrate Christmastime, but it wasn't the fake smarminess (is that a word??) I've experienced more often than not. At each event, people were there because they wanted to be there, were genuinely happy to see other people, welcomed new people into their groups, etcetera. The places were absolutely a-buzz with acceptance and inclusiveness.
Perhaps I'm mellowing over the years, or perhaps it's just me not working in the retail industry for the first time in six years, but I've definitely not felt the pure hatred of this time of year that has enveloped me for the last 30-odd years. (Believe me, hate is a word that rarely surfaces in my vocabulary, but that's what it has always been.) This is a definite move forward in my books, whatever the cause.
I am thankful for my friends who have, in spite of my seasonal grouchiness or downright depression, always been there for me. You guys mean more to me than you probably know. I should probably say that more often than I do.
Anyway, time to go back to bed. I've not had enough sleep.
Enjoy your days, folks!
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