growing up poor I used to Hate the holiday season

You take care and try your best to see the best this holiday season OK?

There are plenty of people here to pickle your mind with problems to be solved and fun too be had :)

Thanks for the GA!

But, like many, I can't say solved.

Growing up poor I was happy as hell. I had a pink womens bike from the 60's that barely worked and I didn't care. Rode the wheels off that thing. When I wasn't catching reptiles and amphibians. Then dad got a good job and I found video games beyond pong on a monochrome screen existed and my life was never the same.
cheers

Is it because of the religious connotations? Is it becz of seeing so many people blissfully happy, without a worry? Is it the blatant consumerism and the irony of thinking so while on SG? Or are you a simply Santa hater!? 😈

Me? Im mostly apathetic, if it makes them happy, good for them. I dont enjoy celebrating myths and spirituality like I used to. And Im okay with that, no plans of ever going back to it.
(Food, Music and smiling people are a plus tho.)

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I javert my eyes

its a stressful holiday season for sure.
has its ups and downs, doesn't help that its usually warm outside to shakes fist at Texas

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.

RIP Mitch

Everyone has something they just don't like.🙄

I have nothing against Christmas.
It is a region where drunks who hate Christmas call out the identity of Santa and where dreams and hopes are lacking and withered infants abound.
It is depressing to observe such things from an extraterrestrial perspective.

I also have every right to dislike someone who has allowed the custom of lying on my birthday to take root on the planet. I wonder who it was.🤔…

Well, I think there was a consideration that the history of what we now call commercial Christmas is about the same as the history of Coca-Cola.　If you have the time, you might want to look into that.
It will be interesting to see how they react to the divergence between before and now. 　🎅🛷🌏　🔭😊

I come from a small middle-class background. When I was a kid, at Christmas the family would suddenly get together without getting into a fight, the atmosphere was good, the food was plentiful, and there was at least one present for everyone under the tree. We also loved Easter in the same way : it was the only time of the year when chocolates were plentiful. :p
Now i'm among the low-class in a rich country, in my country the poor consume at Christmas and the rich preach anti-consumerism, a bit like the poor who spend what little money they have on gambling. Maybe because they try to recreate a more optimistic era that once existed and is no longer, maybe because they console themselves in rare moments by making others and themselves happy.

Finally this period is the atmosphere you create for others and for yourself, so at least... take care of yourself