Two weeks before Christmas, time seems to be lacking for everyone: choosing the last gifts (or the first ones if you are a last-minute fellow), booking a train or a flight to see the fam, thinking about the menu for these days of reunion…What kind of importance does the end of the year have for you?
Spending the end of the year in family can be something that sounds normal, but you can be amid the ones who prefer doing as if it was a day like any other one, and it is okay: there is neither a rule nor an obligation to be surrounded by relatives for Christmas, and perhaps you do not even have this opportunity if you live too far away from your close circle and do not have the budget to consider a trip in late December. Alone, side by side with your love or involved in a big family party, it is up to you to make up your mind and decide what suits you the best.
It is common to say that Christmas time is mostly family time: children running around the Christmas tree, sisters and brothers gathered in the family house, grandparents not too far, grandchildren filled up with presents, this is maybe the kind of Christmas many people are dreaming of. But life sometimes makes it different.
Maybe you will not spend the Christmas festivities with your children because you broke up with your partner and it is his/her turn to have them for the holiday season. Maybe you are stuck at work with no possibility to call on your relatives to open the presents. Maybe your train has been delayed or cancelled with no explanation.
No matter the situation you find yourself in, Christmas and the New Year holidays are a matter of choice too. If 2023 looks like a compromise, you can still rely on the next few years to redeem!