Holiday Blues - Page 2

Sorcerer386 · #16 12-20-2004, 12:50 AM

I really want to thank everyone for their replies. It just makes me feel good to get so many replies, even though they're not exactly on the best of topics. I think the thing that's bumming me out is, looking back at the past year or two, I've lost a lot of people in my life. Not lost like died...they're just gone. Even the people who I barely knew...for example, this semester I met a couple of great people at school. Of course, I had at least one class with each of them because I don't live on campus and that's the only way I meet people. Well, I was standing outside with two of them after our last class, and one of them had to leave. So, I said, "See ya later," then turned to the girl I was with and said, "Actually, no, we probably won't see him again." My assistant manager, the one who promoted me at work and whom I have become kind of close to, has put in her two weeks notice. Plus, I lost a lot of other friends. The strange thing is I've never been nearly this needy in my life. I've always been kind of a loner and have liked it that way.

I feel silly by knowing that a lot of people have it so much worse than I do. I am especially sorry for sara1998. While a couple of little pieces of my life have faded, your whole life has been skewed. I feel so bad for you.

Thank you everyone for the graduation wishes. Law school was always in my future, and now it's in limbo. So, I'm just nervous about what I am going to do if I don't go to law school. A communications degree really isn't worth that much these days, or so it seems to me. But, I want to thank everyone one more time. I'll try to get my chin up and stop this self-pitying nonsense.

dissention · #17 12-20-2004, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I have a hard time from about Thanksgiving into the New Year.

The lot that came up with these holidays were obviously masochists. Why else would they give us Thanksgiving and New Years, only to sandwich Christmas right in the middle? Bastards.

cliffdweller · #18 12-20-2004, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

It's also been strangely sunny here.

Strange? For Oakland, CA?

Livia · #19 12-20-2004, 01:54 PM

Count me in on the Bah, Humbug band wagon....I'm not so much depressed, as I am just not really into it this year...it's like I'm on auto pilot, doing things out of obligation, not because I'm giddily happy about doing them...

dissention · #20 12-20-2004, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Count me in on the Bah, Humbug band wagon....I'm not so much depressed, as I am just not really into it this year...it's like I'm on auto pilot, doing things out of obligation, not because I'm giddily happy about doing them...

Because everything is so commercialized. Gifts are to be expected now, no one appreciates the spirit of giving anymore, it's all about receiving.

cliffdweller · #21 12-20-2004, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Count me in on the Bah, Humbug band wagon....I'm not so much depressed, as I am just not really into it this year...it's like I'm on auto pilot, doing things out of obligation, not because I'm giddily happy about doing them...

I won't be giddily happy again until I finish my stupid master's thesis...god does this **** ever end?!

Livia · #22 12-20-2004, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Because everything is so commercialized. Gifts are to be expected now, no one appreciates the spirit of giving anymore, it's all about receiving.

Yeah, that's a huge part of it. And I'm Jewish and Hanukkah's already over. My family is also so lax about doing things on time, so I haven't gotten all my Hanukkah gifts yet, except $50 from my Aunt Loretta.

Kyle, from South Park, can relate - "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, at Chriiiiistmaaaaas."

There's still holiday spirit to be had in both Xmas and Hanukkah, but this year? Meh.

GardenStateGirlie · #23 12-20-2004, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

Yeah, that's a huge part of it. And I'm Jewish and Hanukkah's already over. My family is also so lax about doing things on time, so I haven't gotten all my Hanukkah gifts yet, except $50 from my Aunt Loretta.

Kyle, from South Park, can relate - "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, at Chriiiiistmaaaaas."

There's still holiday spirit to be had in both Xmas and Hanukkah, but this year? Meh.

At least it sounds like your family gets along. Right now, everyone is avoiding one another. It sucks. Each year we have this big Christmas Eve dinner at my grandmothers and I'm not even going...too much BS for me to deal with.

Other than that, something about this year just doesn't feel right...like it all came too soon or something

gldstwmn · #24 12-20-2004, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

The lot that came up with these holidays were obviously masochists. Why else would they give us Thanksgiving and New Years, only to sandwich Christmas right in the middle? Bastards.

And my birthday. Ugh.