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December is my favorite time of the year. I love everything about it, the cold outside, the shopping, the decorations and the overall feeling of togetherness. I understand that for many people it is a time of stress and frustration, but I’ve never felt that. Even when I barely had a dime, this was my favorite time of the year. There is just nothing else like it for me.
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However, once December 25th passes, I feel like I have to put all of that behind me immediately. It’s as if since the holiday is over, all of the merriment and décor need to be gone as well. Then I usually spend a week or two completely depressed, because I miss the feeling that I had the whole month before. It’s sick, I know.
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Why do I do this to myself? Why am I not treating every day of the year with the same excitement? I just feel like there is a collective happiness in December, that can’t be found at any other time. Like the whole world is shining a little brighter during that time.
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This year, I’ve been hyper-aware of my feelings about this. Here, in the week of Christmas, I am already getting a little sad, because I know it’s all coming to an end soon. But I am really trying to catch myself and just enjoy each day. And the biggest challenge of all is I am going to try to leave my decorations up for at least a few days after Christmas, this will be my true test!
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Perhaps instead of missing December, I should work to make that feeling of love and togetherness happen all year through. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? To feel like its Christmas every day? That’s my mission for 2011: to find that happiness in daily life, finding a way to make each day feel so special. If we all make an effort to do that, the world will shine a little brighter as a result, and that sounds perfect to me!
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