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Blogs > reallyready46 > Ramblings of a middle aged man

So this is Christmas?  

reallyready46 64M
531 posts
12/24/2021 9:09 am
So this is Christmas?

I still dread this holiday. After working retail for 13 years I have seen the ugly side of this holiday. Fights, screaming, yelling and other sad behaviors. I hate how everything closes down, ya I know I am single. My family is gone and my is estranged.

But then something today happened. A real Merry Christmas with feeling from the gate guard at Menards. Driving home I realized this was not the first, one heart felt greeting of this year. They have happened all around me. Even I have given some out. Is this from covid? I can not say.

The few years my giving has went down. I give but its more to others, a few cards there some small things to my favorite eating place. Gone is that pressure to get THE . I want to brighten someones day. So my idea of this year was to get a number of for my waitresses. I bought a couple more than I needed. They got to pick out what they wanted. Did it ever work! All 8 were so excited to get something they wanted. It took all the big pressure off. If I would have picked out for them I would only have gotten one out of 8 right. This worked out to a perfect 8!

I have no to give you. Just advice. Find a happy place this holiday and enjoy. Remember its about each other, say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays with spirit. It may just brighten someone's day.

Where ever you are, whom ever you are and to all serving our Nation, Happy Holidays!

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