brimstonenfire_rain
Wonder of U
- Jul 13, 2023
- 37
For me, Christmas is that crappy period that starts at the end of November and ends on January 6th, where everyone is happy to feel the Christmas spirit that I've never really perceived.
What is Christmas for others?
Receiving gifts and opening them under the tree on the 25th with family.
I haven't received a gift in at least 10 years (applies to all holidays, including my birthday, which I even struggle to remember). I don't remember what the last gift I unwrapped looked like, assuming it was wrapped. I have never had a Christmas tree in my life; I have no idea how to do it and no clue what it means to have a (what I thought was a real when I was child) illuminated bush in the middle of the house. Consequently, I could only see in movies that gifts are unwrapped on the morning of the 25th under the tree.
Usually, in movies, when gifts were unwrapped, there were always many children.
Even when I was a child, when I received gifts, I either unwrapped them alone or didn't spent the holidays with other children, but I was always alone, no siblings, no cousins, no neighbors, no friends. There is no family for me; I don't know what it means to spend the holidays with a good family. This year, obviously, we'll be three: my echo, my shadow and me.
Christmas means eating well.
Well, for me, as it's a day just like the other three hundred and sixty four, I'll eat as I usually do every other day my usual daily ration of lunch and dinner, 2 breads for lunch, and pasta for dinner (being Italian, I can live on carbohydrates because they are the cheapest things). I've been eating only bread for lunch for the last 6 months, so I don't think anything will change for this last Christmas narrative arc of the year.
Going out with friends, visiting Christmas markets with a girlfriend, playing in the streets with snow, shopping, buying gifts, being good consumers.
Everything I will do this month is to sit in front of my heatery, take my phone, scroll reels, and watch other people's Christmases with "Last Christmas" playing in the background, Ryan Gosling memes, then get tired, put the phone down, and sit motionless, staring at the warm and vivid light of the heater, then get tired again, pick up the phone, and so on, with the only difference that during Christmas, I will hear the noisy Christmas dinners of the neighbors, on New Year's Eve, the fireworks, and go to bed before midnight.
But speaking of New Year's Eve, how do you spend it? I mean, like they say, Christmas with family and New Year's Eve with whoever you want(?). What do you do exactly? Do you go out, all stay at a friend's house drinking until morning, go on vacation, play cards(?) I try to be in bed before midnight and sleep so as not to hear the commotion outside.
Christmas means snow.
It doesn't fall where I am; I can't even look out the window to see a snowy landscape, not even that. I talked about vacations. For those of you who go on a winter vacation, I think it's called a "white week", how is it? I mean, being in the mountains with a meter of snow, I don't know, ski? But in general, I think it's nice to make snowmen or something(?), do they really make them or is it just in movies?
Did I forget something that means Christmas to others?
What is Christmas for others?
Receiving gifts and opening them under the tree on the 25th with family.
I haven't received a gift in at least 10 years (applies to all holidays, including my birthday, which I even struggle to remember). I don't remember what the last gift I unwrapped looked like, assuming it was wrapped. I have never had a Christmas tree in my life; I have no idea how to do it and no clue what it means to have a (what I thought was a real when I was child) illuminated bush in the middle of the house. Consequently, I could only see in movies that gifts are unwrapped on the morning of the 25th under the tree.
Usually, in movies, when gifts were unwrapped, there were always many children.
Even when I was a child, when I received gifts, I either unwrapped them alone or didn't spent the holidays with other children, but I was always alone, no siblings, no cousins, no neighbors, no friends. There is no family for me; I don't know what it means to spend the holidays with a good family. This year, obviously, we'll be three: my echo, my shadow and me.
Christmas means eating well.
Well, for me, as it's a day just like the other three hundred and sixty four, I'll eat as I usually do every other day my usual daily ration of lunch and dinner, 2 breads for lunch, and pasta for dinner (being Italian, I can live on carbohydrates because they are the cheapest things). I've been eating only bread for lunch for the last 6 months, so I don't think anything will change for this last Christmas narrative arc of the year.
Going out with friends, visiting Christmas markets with a girlfriend, playing in the streets with snow, shopping, buying gifts, being good consumers.
Everything I will do this month is to sit in front of my heatery, take my phone, scroll reels, and watch other people's Christmases with "Last Christmas" playing in the background, Ryan Gosling memes, then get tired, put the phone down, and sit motionless, staring at the warm and vivid light of the heater, then get tired again, pick up the phone, and so on, with the only difference that during Christmas, I will hear the noisy Christmas dinners of the neighbors, on New Year's Eve, the fireworks, and go to bed before midnight.
But speaking of New Year's Eve, how do you spend it? I mean, like they say, Christmas with family and New Year's Eve with whoever you want(?). What do you do exactly? Do you go out, all stay at a friend's house drinking until morning, go on vacation, play cards(?) I try to be in bed before midnight and sleep so as not to hear the commotion outside.
Christmas means snow.
It doesn't fall where I am; I can't even look out the window to see a snowy landscape, not even that. I talked about vacations. For those of you who go on a winter vacation, I think it's called a "white week", how is it? I mean, being in the mountains with a meter of snow, I don't know, ski? But in general, I think it's nice to make snowmen or something(?), do they really make them or is it just in movies?
Did I forget something that means Christmas to others?
hohoho 
