OPINION: I’m looking forward to Christmas ... because I can’t wait for the whole painful palaver to be over.
Like most people, I’m looking forward to Christmas this year. However, unlike most, my eagerness is not because I enjoy the season, it’s because I can’t wait for the whole painful palaver to be over.
You see, I have no family to spend the day with. I have a brother I adore, but he lives overseas and so, every year, I’m left to find other ways to get through the day of forced merriment. Despite many such Christmases turning into an ugly argument , it is still not hard to become nostalgic, or to imagine that we all might have matured enough to get along by now.
Instead of feeling sorry for myself, I decided to go to a place that always gives me perspective, a sanctuary of goodness and love and giving.
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