will it feel the same?

Ok...Halloween didn't feel like Halloween....
Thanksgiving...ugh just time with the wacko family, didn't feel like Thanksgiving.
Will Christmas feel like Christmas?
Who's ready for it?
and Who agrees?

 

the same as what? the same as childhood? obviously not.

 

that feeling just means you're getting old.

 

no i mean it just doesn't feel like christmas
doesn't feel like halloween
it just feels like the same old shitty day when your suppoesd to be celebrating

 

sounds about right

 

Yea, the days that end up being extraordinary are never the designated ones.

 

its that the TRUE meaning of the hollidays?

 

We have holidays to be celebrated, New years wouldn't be the same without your buddy throwing up from drinking too much or staying up until midnight, watching the ball drop.
Thanksgiving, your thankful, but this year everyone is just like eh lets eat,
Halloween, everyone is like blah, candy, yeah woo.
Its just like any regular old day,
whats the point of a holiday then if no one is celebrating

 

Ivy intoxicated?.. :toetap05:

 

would it feel the saaaaaame .... if I saw you in heeeaaavvveeenn?

 

Funny, this was the first year in years that both Halloween and Thanksgiving felt the way they were "supposed to." I think this Christmas will be a great one.

 

I don't know...
im not ready for christmas,
i think it wil just be like anyother day
like your birthday lol

 

Hoping and wishing that an experience will feel the "same" is an impossible dream and bound to leave you disappointed for several reasons:
1. When things become repetive, they lose some of that initial excitement.
2. Your set, setting, and perspective have matured and changed, so, in some ways, you are incapable of feeling that same childlike joy over again.

So, much like its impossible for me to recreate memories and connection I make when traveling, even if I went to the same places and saw/did the same things, the initial feelings and memories are irreplaceable.

So, hoping for things to be the "same." is a losing game. You can, however, hope for them to be different but equally as meaningful. Maybe, some of what is bogging you down in the dogma and recurrent patterns in your family's holidays. Consider seeing all your family at some other time and choosing something completely different for yourself. Include your family or not, the point is to not to plod into Christmas dinner when you know it will bum you out no matter what.

This year, I'm taking my family out a week before xmas and driving into the middle of nowhere on the actual day.

Cheers

 

thanks

 

what an interesting name

 

Do you like DXM Ivy?

 

oh, she won't admit to that. That will give up her secret

 

Agreed

 

holidays stop feeling special around the time one hits puberty. it's part of growing up.

on an unrelated note, i hope no retarded people sign up here with the name underwear_intoxicated, because i really don't feel like being accused of being a troll's alias.

 

i have to agree with you. i have zero excitement about x-mas this year.