It's like this every year. If you know, you know.
I never really had a fondness for fucking christmas spirit or whatever so it figures I'd have no affection for anything holiday related I guess. But my significant other has both considerable trauma (bad experiences on and around the day) and and a desire for doing something together on the day.
When I moved out a few years ago, I thought finally I'd be able to do cool and original things around it, y'know build up our own little traditions. That's a thing people do, right? But my stupidass job had me working the week of the 25th like every other year if not more, so half the time I wasn't even off. Lmao, no spoons.
I also figured that now I'm fired due to being increasingly deathly ill, I would truly have the time and spoons to do stuff for the holidays! I can use some of that sweet sweet gubmint money what I stole from hardworking taxpayers (what a welfare queen lmao) to do something nice for us, right?? I'm sure I won't be equally if not moreso bereft of spoons due to a multitude of things including eviction hearings, chronic pain and more???
Right?????
It just exhausts me and I hate absolutely fucking everything. That bit post about banning christmas under communism is something I uncritically support. I dunno.
I just can’t give a shit this year. All I look forward to is new years because I convince myself to horrors are a 12 month cycle.
The media is poison. The same banal messages around the clock. I just want to live in a shack somewhere not too far from the sea. No tv or radio. My computer and phone stripped to the bare minimum I need for work, theory and actual culture.
my stupidass job had me working the week of the 25th like every other year if not more
Simple solution. Be a witch and claim the 21st (Yule) off as a religious holiday. I do it for my work. Then build up traditions around that date instead. No one says that stuff has to happen on the 25th.
I can't stand that unreasonable pressure for everything to be fucking magical all on one day. Never liked it. Everyone is always disappointed their lives aren't TV.
The lack of creativity makes everything a Hallmark Channel race to the bottom of the barrel. Dull, droll, snoozefest.
I would genuinely prefer going back to actual Saturnalia. At least that sounds fun.
It’s incredibly fake and performative. The fact that capital doesn’t even take the opportunity to reflect for a single second before continuing the meat grinder is all the evidence you need, as if the rampant consumerism and growth underlying it all wasn’t enough
I was in a store on Saturday that already had Valentine's Day and Easter stuff out. Long gone are the days of stores having extra stock after a holiday that goes on clearance. Now they plan it so they sell out a week before so they can rotate in the new stuff.
Lol my work does give us just Christmas off.
3 weeks ago they announced that we will also be closing early on Christmas eve and new years eve. This only affects my shift. Everyone wad like hell yeah we get 6 hours off on Christmas eve and new years eve! Then they said it isn't paid so I actually had to torch 12 hours of pto not to lose 15% of my paycheck the final 2 weeks of the year over the holidays. Actually sickening
can we return to old form of christmas with the giant bonfires drinking and dancing hanging out with friends and stuff?
you know keeping morale up
As I've grown older, I've noticed just how stressful the holiday seasons actually are. There's just so much weird and random family drama that gets relitigated because this is the time family is together under one roof where the drama relitigation can promptly commence in person. However, I wouldn't say it's a purely negative thing either. It just wind up being intensely stressful. It almost feels like getting the day off from work is more so I can swap bullshit work stress with bullshit family stress.
I fled the country attempting to escape it, but now I have to do it when I get back instead. I fucking hate Christmas.
Also there’s American Christmas songs playing on the other side of the world. I can never escape Mariah Carey.
I tried typing out many things and deleted them and have come to the conclusion I don't even know how I feel about Christmas. I think my brain is cooked when it comes to anything that would typically be family related. Christmas i don't feel many strong emotions towards i just feel indifferent but watching my bf careful wrap the 10 billion presents he got everyone is very cute
It is draining and it goes on for months, I hate it too, but I try not to be too mean and shit on people that enjoy it (too much at least).
I try not to be too mean and shit on people that enjoy it
Well yeah I mean, I hope to never be misanthropic enough to just hate people for enjoying it, I don't plan to be. Power to anybody who actually extracts joy from it in this fuckin hellscape, y'know.
That's the way I see it too. I still want to abolish Christmas though.
If someone's an adult and is worried about having a good Christmas i can't respect that.
The caveats of course are:
trauma because that's not actually about Christmas it's about your own mental well being
if you have children because not being able to provide a good Christmas for your child is really shitty regardless of how dumb the holiday is.
I just heard basically this exact opinion on the guys podcast but I've thought this for most of my life.
My least favorite thing about Christmas is the leftover days of December afterwards. Just this little dingle-berry on the end of the year. The holidays have all been ruined though, other than federal holidays giving people time off from work.
Halloween will win
