| Dec 12, 2006 @ 2:46 PM |
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StubbornAmbition
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I wanted to throw this out there.
Christmas is percieved as a holiday that enhances existing love and this may be true.
Yet even then there are all the stresses resulting from what people have made Christmas out to be.
Also, I believe that Christmas makes the alone more lonely. They are compelled to be able to celebrate it withone they love. To be loved.
As a result I have seen many relationships to hastily made and for the wrong reasons and too many damaged unecessarily.
I also heard that Christmas is the time of year that most relationships are ruined, including marriages.
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| Dec 13, 2006 @ 2:11 AM |
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newfie6750
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I understand what you are saying and it is true but one can not dwell on the past and must forever move forward life is for the living learn to breathe one step at a time . 
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| Dec 13, 2006 @ 2:42 AM |
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Niggle
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I'm one of the significant minority who suffer slight seasonal depression (not in an official, clinical sense), and I'd have to concur with StAm on this.
There's often pressure (social or internal) that leads to artificially heightened expectations. We all know what happens after that. e.g. 2000-2001 tech bubble.
At the most basic level, we see everyone else around being happy (or trying), and many people (including me) feel that they are somehow inadequate or not playing along. No matter how fulfilled I may otherwise be in my life, I'm still human and therefore susceptible to certain hard-wired genetic coding to get along with and compete with the pack. The unease and sense of depression come from (in part) my failure to do so.
Man, this makes it sound like I get really long in the face when Saint Nick comes trundling 'round. Luckily, I've lately built a pretty high opinion of myself (it's a new and exciting feeling, let me tell you), and it's not like I drown my sorrows in Bailey's and advocaat by my lonesome on New Year's Eve.
Usually, I just leave the party I'm at, take a solitary walk around the neighborhood, savor the cold smell of hardwood fires and sounds of distant friends and families I don't know carousing, and then I'm all better. :)
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| Dec 15, 2006 @ 2:56 AM |
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carpediem48
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I agree that Christmas commercialism and false expectations encouraged by unrealistic idyllic commercials....distract us .
Actually Jesus wasn't even born on January 25.....there is no reference to his birthday in the bible....it's fascinating to learn the origins of Christmas....try googling it or just read an encycloprdia.
I'm sending lots of hugs to everyone and especially those who have extra stress and lonliness at this time of year. 
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| Dec 18, 2006 @ 7:58 AM |
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Whiteangel79
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That can be true and it is very sad. Too many people let the streeses of their lives spill into other aspects of their lives and once that happens, it tends to spiral out of control until the damage is unrepairable. It is not easy this thing called life. With it’s broken dreams and lonely nights and all the things that don’t work out right. It would be easier if it came with a script of who we were to meet and the right things to say and nothing but sunshine filling each day. Yes it would be easier but it wouldn’t be life.
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