I’ve worked on making the holiday as low key, streamlined, and not too stressful as I can.
Yet it feels crazier every year. I appreciate even more now the efforts my parents made when I was growing up. And those were analog days when we wanted stuff from the Sears catalog!
I enjoy giving. I don’t enjoy materialism. I enjoy the lights and decorations. I don’t enjoy the often exploitative system behind manufacturing or people’s judgmental or hyper moralistic attitudes. If you don’t celebrate the holidays you’re a terrible person. If you do celebrate, you’re a terrible person. Etc.
That’s a lot to navigate and hold space for.
Man, I do not like tripping too much nostalgia because it can be a trap. But I miss the old days of having fun and doing your thing without snooty people looking down from their high horses at others.
Self-awareness is good. Too much self-consciousness sets up walls.
I always have non material wishes and as always, I wish peace on earth, good will among people, and an enduring wish that people could recognize what really matters: we’re souls having a human experience and what matters is quality, not quantity.
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