Each
year I promise myself that I will do it, that is escape it, but
each year I don't end up doing anything about it maybe through
curiosity as to what might happen in my area over those few days, so
as I don't miss out on anything, but year after year it's more
or less always the same -
We
rush about like mad trying to buy all the presents and trying to make
sure that the ones that we have to send to our family abroad get
there on time. Put up all the Christmas
decorations in
your home, and if you work, in the office as well! Start stocking up
the cupboards with all the food that has to be consumed over the
festive season, all of which is mostly very fattening.
Then
there are all the Christmas parties to go to where large quantities
of drink are consumed and more than one hangover is to be suffered. I
include here the office party as well where you have to be very
careful not to drink too much and put your foot in it in front of any
of your superiors because with redundancy being so virulent these
days you could end up losing your job just for having had that one
drink too many!
Over
the Christmas season our waistlines increase at least one inch during
all the pre Christmas parties and drinks and we end up finding that
we have nothing to wear when the actual festive days arrive as
nothing fits us any longer!
The
other problem is that during all these Christmas festivities it is
the time when we suffer more colds than ever as being amongst so many
other people is the best way for a cold to easily pass from one to
about ten other people! So on top of it all there is every chance
that you are going to spend most of your holiday feeling lousy and
maybe even having to take to bed.
Christmas
is also a time when both family and friends get together and
sometimes because people are so tired of having drunk and eaten too
much and feeling bloated, hung over and irritable they take out their
bad moods on all that are nearest to them and so hence this is also a
time when the worst arguments can take place and even serious break
ups which can become permanent!
And at
the end of the day I think that the only ones who really enjoy
Christmas because they are oblivious to all the above and only have
to dream of which present they will receive are the young, so I
suppose if you are a parent you will have to continue with the whole
ritual for the sake of your children.
But I
don't have any children and so even though I have finally decided
after so many years of going through the Christmas ritual that I
don't want to do it any more even in case I miss something
interesting, the sad fact is that this year I don't have the means.
because of the crisis, to be able to get away from it, so once
again I will have to go through it all again and hope that next year
will at last be the year when me and my husband can get on a flight
to some far away tropical island, where maybe they don't even
celebrate Christmas and just lounge on the beach and eat fresh fruit
and salads for two weeks to return in January when it is all over!
And
this is why I dislike Christmas!
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