More about Christmas.

[wolven7]

Lamb - Hearts and Flowers--- I just let myself realise that i stopped smelling and feeling Christmas, when i was twelve. The lights and the songs, and the smells, and the feeling of family, and warmth... That was the last time it really hit me, at all.

I still get ghosts of it, but not like it used to be

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[jessicarabbitt.livejournal.com]

It was thirteen for me. Watching your dad die right in front of you 3 weeks before Christmas kinda does that to you.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :\

[cryptickisses.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I've been feeling the same way. Christmas definately isn't what it used to be. I blame some of it on adulthood...most of it on society and capitolism. I find that as I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to its magic. Reality often kills romanticism so quickly, it takes a second before we even realize its dead. Do I have to grow up? And if I'm already too far gone and indeed a "grown-up", can I trade it in and be a kid again?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the "Adult," aspect, or just the change; watching so much of what we knew as part of the season torn away, or changed. So much cynicism, these days...

Seriousness and adulthood are great, but i miss the good things about the winter holidays.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Becoming less involved in the good aspects and more in the shitty doesn't help...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Soo... I should stop working retail?

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

No, because you'll still be expected to participate in the adult realms of competing via gifts, worry about money, and Involuntary Social Gatherings.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, i don't compete. I just ask people what they want. If they want me to read their minds, they need to make that clear, and make thier handwriting more legible. *nods*