I Hate The Holidays

[Nema]

The holiday season of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years always raises some people's  spirits, while also putting some in the gutter. Let me tell you something. You don't need to have relatives to enjoy the holiday season (or any other season).

You know that feeling that you get when you are shunned by someone else? That feeling you get when everyone else is smiling and having a good time, but you just want to close up in a box? There's a way to make that feeling go away.

Go down to your local soup kitchen and help out. Volunteer at a retirement home and sit with the elderly whose families have abandoned them. Or, volunteer your time at an orphanage or boys and girls club. You don't have to buy anyone anything. Just being there for others in need is a wonderful thing. It gives you a feeling that can't be explained. Seeing a little kid's eyes light up when you walk in because they know you are going to read them a book...

What I'm saying is, you don't have to be a holiday season victim.

And please don't take offense at any of this. I'm only suggesting a way to make yourself and others feel better.

[Tristyn]

The holiday season of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years always raises some people's  spirits, while also putting some in the gutter. Let me tell you something. You don't need to have relatives to enjoy the holiday season (or any other season).

You know that feeling that you get when you are shunned by someone else? That feeling you get when everyone else is smiling and having a good time, but you just want to close up in a box? There's a way to make that feeling go away.

Go down to your local soup kitchen and help out. Volunteer at a retirement home and sit with the elderly whose families have abandoned them. Or, volunteer your time at an orphanage or boys and girls club. You don't have to buy anyone anything. Just being there for others in need is a wonderful thing. It gives you a feeling that can't be explained. Seeing a little kid's eyes light up when you walk in because they know you are going to read them a book...

What I'm saying is, you don't have to be a holiday season victim.

And please don't take offense at any of this. I'm only suggesting a way to make yourself and others feel better.

That's not a bad idea actually. Just would have to punch my severe social anxiety in the face and pretend not to have any if I did any of that I guess. Trust me, its easier to understand if you have anxiety like that so bad that you'd wait in your house until there are no people in sight outside your window. >.> But I am about to volunteer at a hospital to help with my resume for work. So that's not too bad either.

And no, I did not take offense to this. Its a great idea that most people never consider cause they too busy with their own lives, right? Makes me sick is what it does.