December 2022

What does this month represent?

• Christmas Holiday
• Winter Holiday
• End of the year/decade
• Beginning of Winter
• Cold and Snow
• Tax Deductions
• Soliciting Money
• Family Closeness
• Suicides & Loneliness

What is really interesting, at least to me, is the fact that one can be in the presence of family and friends and still feel lonely and alone...  in part by the way they are treated and in part by what is going on inside their minds, that no one is paying attention to.

So, why is December the month that brings all of these emotions to the surface?

By product of affluence perhaps???

However, there is more positive stuff going on that negative stuff, so I am sure that is also part of it as well...  negative people are ignored as most of us want to focus on the positive...  even though we may be hiding our true feelings.

It is difficult sometimes to be around family...  while we anticipate it happening, it does not always unfold the way we planned, and as these tensions expand they sometimes explode in arguments because things were not done like we wanted to be done...  or people did not help out like they should have helped out.

And, we all know that we are really glad once the holiday is over and family goes back to where they were living originally...  then, as we debrief ourselves, we are again sad that we acted the way we did around family, wishing that we could have handled it differently.

Sometimes, we are completely oblivious to those emotions and nothing flows through our minds at all...  and, those people aren't treated kindly...

These are our families and we would not want it any different than it is...  we anticipate it and look forward to it...  because it is the holidays.