is anyone else in the christmas spirits??

i am... whats ur favorite thing about the holidays?? mine is the christmas tree i like the bright color lights espec. if they blink. i also like how ppl are more kind and u get that warm feeling inside.. and hot chocolate. the smell of fireplaces is nice too.


YOUR TURN!!!!!!!!!! go!

 

bah humbug

holiday for the retailers, I don't buy into it . I don't like how people can manage to be a little nicer for a few weeks, but the day after new years come back hungover and stay that way until next year.

I do quite enjoy the decorations though, thats definitely my fav part. Christmas decorations are very artistic, really shows the personality of the person who put them up... if only that bit of artistic freedom carried through all year the world would be a much more beautiful place.

 

I really get into the xmas spirit after having popped 5 acid tabs.

 

oh, let it go. don't let the retailers rob you of a wonderful midwinter celebration with the people you love. we're not spending over $100 on the entire, huge, extended family. you know why? because that's about what we spend on our family the rest of the year anyway. we're baking cookies, we're gathering with friends, chasing the dark away, chasing away the midwinter blues and seasonal affective disorder. HAHA! it's the best christmas ever. don't let the assholes bring you down. it doesn't make you a rebel, it makes you a victim!

 

I'm not up or down, I'm quite the same all year

I don't frown at those into the whole christmas deal, I try to find a way for them to realize they *could* simply carry that mentality all year... the gifts have nothing to do with the "spirit".

For me, everyday is "christmas"

 

once I drew this cartoon of a santa claus with an axe like the grim reaper, but he was cutting chritmas trees not heads.

 

it's great. though i have to say, as someone who gets depressed every winter, having an excuse to string up lights, go through the memories and the meditative motions, it's beautiful. i need a specific time and place to walk my way through the traditions, the metal images, the smells, the sounds, it really changes my head and starts me over.

 

the only holiday I like is New Year's.. cause the next day, it's my birthday!

 

neato!!!

the way i figure it, every society and culture has had some "let's break the tedium of midwinter" kind of celebration. why deny it?

 

I'm not a holiday person I really don't care about them.

 

It's been a while since I've been in the spirit.

My mother and boyfriend hate Christmas. My best friend and her family love it...so me, her, her mother, and sister made Christmas goodies as gifts today. It was nice. I was moderately in the spirit then. It's tough, though because I don't have much money this year (seems to be everyones story!). But literally, I have $37 to last until the last week in December. So, I'm baking and making cute little cards. Maybe with the snow coming tonight and more than likely being snowed in tomorrow, I'll be in the spirit...who knows.

 

This is my point exactly.

You "could" do this all year... the change is in your mind, it has nothing to do with decorating a tree.

Is no more than a mentality - you allow yourself to get depressed, you bring yourself out of it... you have the power to do as you choose with your emotions.

 

man, not to bring down this beautifu lthread. But staying one emotion all yr, is not fun, nor is it living. Being a bitch, being mean to people, being sad...all part of life. its cool to stay merry and cheery and be nice to people not just because of a holiday. But i finda person more endearing when they can be mean, and sad, and negative, and not just the "happy" emotions.

the freezing cold and the snow and the big tree in the city always get me in xmas spirit. and just living with my mom. she goes all out with decorations, hot chocolate, fireplace, bells on our doorknobs and bows. Living with my mom gets me in every holiday spirit.

 

How is it in any way "good" for a person to be an asshole? How is that at any time acceptable?

Everyone is fully capable of controlling their emotions, its not ok to allow yourself to feel like shit and allow that emotion to resonate in everything you do, no, its not ok and it sure isn't "endearing".

Tolerance for such lack of control is exactly what allows things like that cop who tasered the guy within a minute of pulling him over because he was a little "edgy". He took it to an extreme, but if the general mentality was to NOT accept that your "edgy" perhaps he wouldn't have gotten to that point... there is no excuse, period.

We are emotional creatures, its part of being human. You choose to control those emotions, or you choose to let those emotions control you.

 

I like seeing all of my family and I love sitting downstairs to just look at my christmas tree. I agree that we should be merry all year round, I have said that on numerous occasions.

 

Exactly.... why not? No matter what happens outside, you can be at peace with yourself... once you are at peace with yourself that peace spreads.

 

Good point. My opinion is that you are robbing yourself a whole lot if you're just happy because it's Christmas, but I understand it if people are especially happy becuase they love the things about the Holiday's that don't normally happen. I mean who doesn't like all that stuff that happens...its a change and its exciting.

 

Everyday is exciting, you just have to see it that way.

You can either....
Get up, go to work, come home, eat, watch a movie, go to sleep

or

Get up!, go to work!, come home!, eat!, watch a movie!, go to sleep!

See what I'm sayin?

Its not a matter of knowing things could be worse, because when they do get worse your only reminded of how things were when you deemed them "ok"... its a matter of appreciating all of lifes twists and turns - and being at peace with yourself in each and every moment.

 

Another thing is if you don't like the way things are the change them.

 

YES YES YES!

Empower YOURSELF!

At any moment there are infinite options, you may not be able to get out of a sticky situation tomorrow... but you can put things in place that will unstick you within some period of time.