So it’s a brand new year !
A time filled with so many possibilities and optimism along with that feeling of trying to remember the last time you got paid, as well as having to check your new calendar on a regular basis to remind yourself that Christmas was in fact only a few weeks or so ago. Not only does Christmas fly by, but by the time you’ve had your turkey, rang in the New Year and found your way back to your office and desk, it all seems like it was as far back as last September.
"At last, we can get back to normality!"
"I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that’s over!"
"I don’t care what she says, next year we’re going away!"
"So how was your Christmas?……..Oh good…….. yeah mine too....…..so anyway…….."
Just a some of the comments I heard as people compared their Yuletide experiences, which leads me to conclude, something I pretty much new already, which is that some people tolerate Christmas and do what they do through a combined feeling of guilt and duty.
This will be the forth year that I didn’t send Christmas cards to everyone apart from people I hadn’t actually even met yet and only bought presents for those I really wanted to buy one for. Thus far the sky hasn’t turned red or orange and the understairs cupboard remains free of locusts, so I don’t think it’s pushing one’s luck too much to reign in some of the things you do throughout December that you wish you didn‘t have too. Especially if they are simply because you think somebody will notice if you don’t do them and judge accordingly.
My best advise, not that you asked for any in the first place of course, is to worry a bit less about whether or not people will in fact mind what you do or don’t do over Christmas or any other holiday period for that matter. Generally it is being happy that counts and as long as no one is being downright selfish, not too much should go wrong.
Anyway, you have months before you need to think of that again, so there is plenty of time to worry about that later. Before all that we have the much more pressing business of surviving 2008 to get on with. Gym membership anyone ?
As published in the 18th January 2008 edition of The Kemptown Rag
"At last, we can get back to normality!"
"I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that’s over!"
"I don’t care what she says, next year we’re going away!"
"So how was your Christmas?……..Oh good…….. yeah mine too....…..so anyway…….."
Just a some of the comments I heard as people compared their Yuletide experiences, which leads me to conclude, something I pretty much new already, which is that some people tolerate Christmas and do what they do through a combined feeling of guilt and duty.
This will be the forth year that I didn’t send Christmas cards to everyone apart from people I hadn’t actually even met yet and only bought presents for those I really wanted to buy one for. Thus far the sky hasn’t turned red or orange and the understairs cupboard remains free of locusts, so I don’t think it’s pushing one’s luck too much to reign in some of the things you do throughout December that you wish you didn‘t have too. Especially if they are simply because you think somebody will notice if you don’t do them and judge accordingly.
My best advise, not that you asked for any in the first place of course, is to worry a bit less about whether or not people will in fact mind what you do or don’t do over Christmas or any other holiday period for that matter. Generally it is being happy that counts and as long as no one is being downright selfish, not too much should go wrong.
Anyway, you have months before you need to think of that again, so there is plenty of time to worry about that later. Before all that we have the much more pressing business of surviving 2008 to get on with. Gym membership anyone ?
As published in the 18th January 2008 edition of The Kemptown Rag
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