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I LOVE CHRISTmas...and I know very well what the true meaning for CHRISTmas is...and I love celebrating Advent and Christmas Eve with my church family...and this year (this evening as a matter of fact) for the very first time I will be participating in Sharing Christmas with the Homeless as part of our church's Homeless Ministry...
but yet on this day, two days before Christmas, I am depressed...I don't know why, but I am...I have always had visions of sugar plums and having a wonderful Christmas Season with all the joys and festivities and visions that that conjures...but every year, i have a sad, lonely Christmas...and as I look toward Christmas 2009...i get depressed...because I'm all alone...
even with my mom, my son, and my significant other (he doesn't even celebrate Christmas) and my extended family....I'm all alone, I don't have any Christmas decorations up except for the few Christmas Cards that I have recieved from some church members...I don't know what to do...
all year, I look forward to this season with anticipation of how this year it's gonna be different, and every year i get to this day and even Christmas Day itself and its no different...I know the joy of Christmas, but yet I don't feel that joy in my Heart....WHY?
What is wrong with me? or what am I doing wrong?
thanks
DarqueStarr
but yet on this day, two days before Christmas, I am depressed...I don't know why, but I am...I have always had visions of sugar plums and having a wonderful Christmas Season with all the joys and festivities and visions that that conjures...but every year, i have a sad, lonely Christmas...and as I look toward Christmas 2009...i get depressed...because I'm all alone...
even with my mom, my son, and my significant other (he doesn't even celebrate Christmas) and my extended family....I'm all alone, I don't have any Christmas decorations up except for the few Christmas Cards that I have recieved from some church members...I don't know what to do...
all year, I look forward to this season with anticipation of how this year it's gonna be different, and every year i get to this day and even Christmas Day itself and its no different...I know the joy of Christmas, but yet I don't feel that joy in my Heart....WHY?
What is wrong with me? or what am I doing wrong?
thanks
DarqueStarr
I, too, love Christmas and the true meaning of it all.......I blame the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, HGTV....
Honestly, remember the year Martha Stewart was in jail and we had the year off?
I can't seem to kick the blues today, either. My kids are so excited and I try to see Christmas through their eyes, but, alas.
This year it's the lack of a job for me and $.
Have you watched any Christmas movies lately? I laughed and cried (good tears) through "Holiday Inn" the other night.
:)
I hope you find out what is causing this.
HUGS
I also think that we put too much expectations on the holiday. Maybe just let what happens, happen? And remember... much of what you are feeling is the depression talking... trying to bring you down...
Does that make sense?
MarthaMom,
yeah, the other night, i watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation...Laughed more than I have all year, but then came the next day, and it was back to being depressed :(
Lack of job and $ here too, i haven't gotten my son anything for two Christmases now...he's a good sport about it, but I feel like a complete failure...
Testycatlady...
SAD, no i haven't heard of that but I'll look into it for next year...as for the depression talking...yeah, definately...it's a pain in the emotional butt...
GoodFella,
thanks...maybe if I can get my significant other and myself to see that I will feel a little better...
anyway, thanks
DarqueStarr