“Oh I wish it could be Christmas everyday?” It would be amazing wouldn’t it?
OK maybe it wouldn’t, it would be super expensive, having to buy presents everyday and eating all the food we eat over the Christmas time wouldn’t be very good for us.
However do you need a holiday like christmas to celebrate…Christmas? Yes Christmas is about the birth of Jesus even though it is a pagen festival and in real time Jesus would have likey not of been born on Dec 25th but later.
However one thing that makes my depression and anxiety bad at this time of year is when the christmas tree and lights come down.
Ever where just seems so dull and blank and just mah, everything is so boreing, I went into town today to do some shopping for my mum, keeping to social distence rules of course and I went into the Grand Arcade shopping center.
Already the trees was down and the christmas decorations was put away till next year it just made me sad to see everything put away.
It does make me think of the song “I wish it could be Christmas everyday…” And yeah, yeah I do wish I could be, even more so this year.
We was luckly we was able to have a “normal” Christmas, me and mum went to my uncles has we are his support bubble and at the time we was in tier 3, we haven’t seem my Uncle has much this year for obvious reasons so to actually be able to see him on Christmas was great.
However some people haven’t been so luckly some being on their own not being able to see family, i’ve heard some say they was going to put Christmas on hold till they was able to see family and friends again.
I then got hit by that wave of gulit for feeling sad and depressed because some people had a worse Christmas than me and I was there feeling sad because all the decorations are down.
Then I thought “Why does it have to be that way?” I’m not a religous person why does everything have to seem so dull.
Why not have look to other religions and see what festivals they have, for example there is a Pagan festival called Imbolc. Imbolc celebrated between the 1st and 2nd Feb, It is the pagan festival of emerging life, A time of new ideas and coming into the light.
To me this would be a perfect festival to celebrate when my depression is bad has it would be seen has stepping into somthing new, and yes I know that’s what a lot of people do on new years eve/day but whats stopping me doing it for imbolc also?
I’ve read up on Imbolc and some of the food that you can make sounds amazing.
Rosemary & Lemon Curd Tassies, Lavender Tea Milk Punch, Imbolc Lavender & Rosemary Seed Cake, Angelic Biscuits, Bacon and Leeks.
I’m not saying everyone should do this or that i am doing this becasue “I WANT PRESENTS!” or everyone should go out and buy presents but if people want to put up a tree or some kind of decorations to make their mental health better then what is wrong with that?
In the past few years there has been a raise of Easter trees and Easter decorations or i’ve seemed to notice them more, a few years back I saw a post on facebook where some one had wanted to put their Christmas tree up in October but their family said it was to early so they got round it by putting halloween decorations on it.
I have a 3ft tree which I am considering keeping up in my room and when something comes around I want to celebrate like St Pats day, Easter, Imbolc, Halloween etc I can put some lights on the tree, a few decorations and just brighten my room up.
Of course I’m not saying this is a magic fix like “yeah, if i do this my mental health issues with be cured!”
No it won’t be but if it helps me a little and I can just for a short time keep the back dog at bay am I wrong for looking for ways to have some brightness in the darkness?
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