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dr. nervioso:
I do. But instead of carrots, my brother and his girlfriend burnt the pudding.

Also I got my chicago-style pizza today.

Barmymoo:
My Christmas will be nice! Almost entirely because I've carefully limited it to no more than a week with any one person and a lot of flexibility about escaping to the next person if necessary. There might be a bit of tension at my dad's because everyone's quite high-drama but it should still be fairly pleasant. And although I get a bit overwhelmed by the size of my stepdad's family (three sisters, each with two children, each with a partner and most with at least one child of their own), they're all very lovely. Sort of like syrup.

Zingoleb:
I just realized that this is going to be my first Christmas without my family.

Awesome.

Josefbugman:
-sigh- You guys have strange and worrisome christmases.

Just try and have fun, and remember to pick up some charity shop christmas cards. I know that's what I am doing for the annual "Which bugger do I need to send this to now" christmas card sending.

Barmymoo:
I don't send Christmas cards of any kind. I try to avoid receiving them as well.

Josef, I don't think you can say it's strange and worrisome that young adults find it hard to return to their families for Christmas without some level of drama and anxiety. It's perfectly normal for it to be awkward to keep an old tradition going when people have changed almost beyond recognition. I have lived away from my parents for long enough that I've developed new habits, new beliefs, new patterns of living, and it is just as hard for me to go back to the old ones (many of which I gave up because I found them illogical or intolerable) as it is for them to accept me as I am now, rather than as I was at the age of 10. A perfect example of this is that since I moved out of my dad's house nearly five years ago, I have started going to church. This is a huge, huge, huge problem for my incredilbly atheist father. Christmas for me and Christmas for them mean completely different things and it is just an issue. Why is it strange that I would want to avoid that issue and just enjoy seeing them for a little while?

I'm an adult now, and I want to celebrate Christmas and New Year in my own way. We all develop lives that suit us, and it's not always easy to fit other people back into them. All holidays present this difficulty, because we all have set and varied ideas about how they should go.





Annnnyyyhoooooow, let's talk about decorating! I love Christmas decorations, although I was rather surprised to see that the Christmas lights are up and switched on in Cambridge town centre already.

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