It's still kind of early here at the "old homestead" this Saturday morning.
The weather the past few days hasn't been very "December-like" at all. Thursday the temperature was pushing 10 degrees C, while Friday was just a few degrees cooler. Not exactly weather that launches one into the Christmas or holiday spirit.
Nevertheless, Christmas Eve will be three weeks tomorrow(Sunday).
Over the past few weeks and it appears to happen every year around this time, I seem to post ad infinitum regarding just about any Christmas and holiday-related theme possible. Not sure why this happens. Perhaps it is just an easy subject to go about, given the time of year.
I made my first Christmas and holiday season-related post around November 10. No matter how you may look at it, November 10 is a long way out from December 25.
And the reality is that you would have to have some absolutely extraordinary superpowers to sustain just about any moderate level of Christmas enthusiasm for six weeks from mid-November to the "big day" in December.
In many ways, I feel this pressure or perhaps desire to create and maintain some vague level of "Christmas and holiday" spirit, essentially for the above-noted six-week period or something close to that.
And this impossible "Christmas spirit attainment level" is completely of my own doing and creation. No one to blame but yours truly.
And I think many of us, can find ourselves in the same "Christmas and holiday spirit" related boat. Working so damn hard to generate and sustain something, that we frequently miss or sabotage the thing we're trying to create or sustain in the first place.
I and perhaps a few others out there, need to remind ourselves in many instances during this season, to "go with the flow" and allow things to happen. There are going to be "ebbs and flows" during the next few weeks leading up to Christmas Eve and Day. You will have days where your Christmas spirit flows water out of a hose. While, the next day, it may feel like your Christmas and holiday spirit has dried right up.
Personally, our Christmas and holiday enthusiasm tends to go in cycles throughout the season. Very often we have a couple of days, where we nail for example getting out Christmas shopping. Then we will go into a bit of a lull in the shopping mode and not have any desire whatsoever, it get back out there.
But, after a bit, the old Christmas and holiday cycle starts on the upswing once again.
Without a doubt, this time of year can be a pressure-filled number of weeks for virtually an unlimited number of reasons.
So, if we cut ourselves some slack; and not try to emulate some "Hallmark Christmas movie" level of Christmas and holiday spirit and simply enjoy the moment.....I'm pretty sure things will work out just fine.
Tonight is the Christmas parade in our little town along the Fundy coast. I think we missed it last year, as we were in Halifax attending another event.
After the parade, I'm thinking "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" would be an excellent way to cap off a Saturday night.
--as always with love--
--- get outdoors; find inspiration; discover yourself ---
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