Christmas, Unfiltered

Christmas season is a season everyone of us looks forward to. Each and everyone of us has his own reason for loving this period. For some people, it’s the fact that they finally get to say goodbye to their busy lifestyle after a long year of working hard. For others, it’s the fact that they get to have some free time to rest, make memories with their loved ones and have some fun.

For me, I’d say I fall in all these categories. On some days, I’m happy I get so many free days just doing nothing, on other days I’m happy that I don’t have to have two hours of sleep everyday. Then, there’s this days I wish it wasn’t Christmas at all. See, don’t get me wrong. I love love the festive season. But sometimes I just wish time would just go back or move forward so i wouldn’t have to stand somethings I hate.

This actually depends a lot on where I’m celebrating my holidays. In a good year, I get to have my holiday break and I get to decide either to celebrate it with family or just myself. When i have a busy year, I forget it’s even Christmas cos it’s all work work work. If there’s one thing that stresses me out during such season, it’s when I decide to travel hours and hours to spend the holidays with my family and see everyone and then we have these family gatherings and one annoying aunty just ups and starts asking when I’m getting married. Likeee, sometimes you just feel the need to put such aunties in their place but where I come from, you have to respect elders and all even if they are wrong.

Then, there’s having to babysit kids you didn’t give birth to. It seems some of our family members and friends forget that we also have plans for the holidays or something because tell me why someone will just up and come an dump their kids on you until God knows when. I do love kids, but sometimes I have things to do and so I’m now left to choose between leaving the kids alone at home to do my own stuff or staying and taking care of them.

This season is actually a very busy one. But as much as you think you’re busy, remember others are also busy. So, let’s be thoughtful and not stress innocent people like myself out. Peace.

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