Christmas - should it be banned for all except kids?
Isn't it a shame that so many people feel sad and lonely and miserable and miss their loved ones at Christmas?
I had a paternal Grandmother (yup, the one I sincerely hated) who was always a miserable old moaning cow at Christmas (a bit like me but a female version!).
I think my grandfather died about Christmas time so she wanted everybody else to be miserable too - and objected to children being all happy and excited. I was only a kid, but I really deeply resented her attempts to spoil MY Christmas just because she wasn't happy with life.
We live in a global world.
Very few non-impoverished people live within a few miles of the family they were born to. Brothers and sisters have moved on - either hundreds of miles or emmigrated even further............. many of us never see our own parents at Christmas for decades, but we all miss that feeling of goodwill and that nuclear family identity - right?
This Christmas I'll be with my mum, but without my dad as he recently died.
My partner has spent 24th/25th December with a g/f come rain or shine for several decades, but she'll fly out here on 26th December.
Woohoo!
The New Year? A time of renewal of hope and a positive attitude to the future? A drunken night out that starts the New Year with a hangover and a sense of frustration?
We have choices.
What are your choices?
Even if our choices are limited our desires are unlimited!
What would YOU like to do for Christmas and the New Year?
Do you come with Monika to our New Years Eve Party? We don't know now where exactly it will be. Malta was one option.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge, but maybe not enough yet........ there are people in Malta whose company I nolonger feel comfortable with...
We'll see - I know who my real friends are, and don't wish to spoil a party for those who are not!
Anybody who makes the effort to take the short (20 minute) ferry crossing over from Malta to Gozo can be assured of a warm welcome over here.
My daughter is not sending a letter to Santa Claus listing all the things that her son wants for Christmas, just the toy section of the Argos catalogue.
Why?[/quote ]I would like to be on a yacht travelling around the world with Sommer, Mike and some of my friends. Bibi and the man of my life.
I like the sea, I love to visit new places and have new experiences. 45 is a good age for a trip around the world.
I've just been on a 12 day 'freestyle' cruise (Turkey,Egypt & Greece) -
it was a novel experience with an enormous choice of restaurants, bars, activities etc and with about 2,500 fellow passengers from all over the world......... luckily I was with the most attractive woman on the whole ship so I wasn't distracted by too many women - apart from the Salza dancing which was kinda fun (even if I ended up suffering from 'over-gyrated hips' and a touch of hyperventilation!).
12 days was enough for this particular type of cruise. I still want to cruise round New Zealand though...........and I am saving up to go in 2010.
A few years ago my dad wanted to take my mother on a six month round the world cruise (quite a few years ago as she hadn't had a massive stroke at the time).
My mum refused - she said that three months would have been more than enough; six months was way too long.
He grumbled for a year or so, then gave up trying to persuade her ... a few times they cruised on cargo ships - many cargo ships have about six luxury cabins for passengers and you get to eat with the Captain every night which can be interesting (unless the Captain is a pig and farts a lot).
(not QUITE yet, but it shall be in what appears to be just a few hours time for those of us elderly folk for whom time seems to fly faster and faster as gravity sucks us down into the ground of the 'infinite land of nod'!)
(not QUITE yet, but it shall be in what appears to be just a few hours time for those of us elderly folk for whom time seems to fly faster and faster as gravity sucks us down into the ground of the 'infinite land of nod'!)
I was highly amused one year, while doing some last minute shopping in a local mall, to pass a guy staggering out the Liquor Store with a huge load of alcohol ... I said to him "If it wasn`t for the kids, you`d not have to do all this hey?" ..... He fully agreed with me!
smoky: Yeah, you`re right! Christmas is for the kids.
I was highly amused one year, while doing some last minute shopping in a local mall, to pass a guy staggering out the Liquor Store with a huge load of alcohol ... I said to him "If it wasn`t for the kids, you`d not have to do all this hey?" ..... He fully agreed with me!
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Isn't it a shame that so many people feel sad and lonely and miserable and miss their loved ones at Christmas?
I had a paternal Grandmother (yup, the one I sincerely hated) who was always a miserable old moaning cow at Christmas (a bit like me but a female version!).
I think my grandfather died about Christmas time so she wanted everybody else to be miserable too - and objected to children being all happy and excited. I was only a kid, but I really deeply resented her attempts to spoil MY Christmas just because she wasn't happy with life.
We live in a global world.
Very few non-impoverished people live within a few miles of the family they were born to. Brothers and sisters have moved on - either hundreds of miles or emmigrated even further............. many of us never see our own parents at Christmas for decades, but we all miss that feeling of goodwill and that nuclear family identity - right?
This Christmas I'll be with my mum, but without my dad as he recently died.
My partner has spent 24th/25th December with a g/f come rain or shine for several decades, but she'll fly out here on 26th December.
Woohoo!
The New Year? A time of renewal of hope and a positive attitude to the future? A drunken night out that starts the New Year with a hangover and a sense of frustration?
We have choices.
What are your choices?
Even if our choices are limited our desires are unlimited!
What would YOU like to do for Christmas and the New Year?
Where would you like to be?
Who would you like to be with?
Why?