I don't know about everyone else out there, but doesn't it seem wrong that we are already done celebrating Thanksgiving?? I swear it feels like it should still be July or August. I never really prepared myself mentally for the cold weather or Christmas shopping, and BAM! -- it's here! Something about it just doesn't seem right! Everything is coming and going so fast that I feel like I'm not enjoying it the same way I used to.
I want to know if it will continue to be this way now that I am a "grown-up", or if it ever gets better... Time went so slowly as a kid and I can remember anxiously waiting for the holidays to get here. I appreciated every minute of each one. Now, the days all glide together and they're over and done with before I can really think about it. Every person I talk to though seems to say the same thing..."Can you believe it's already November??" It doesn't seem too long ago I had that conversation with a few patients at my clinic, and now we're nearing December. It can't just be me feeling this way--but is it that way for everyone as an adult? Is that just one of the unfortunate things that happens when you grow up that just needs to be accepted?
It is a blessing, at least, that I will be able to watch that same excitement and anticipation I once felt while I am raising my own children. I never understood until I became a mom why my mother always preferred to watch us open all of our gifts Christmas morning before she would even touch hers. I'm sure I'll be the same way.
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No, it will never slow down. That's why we're all going crazy and getting stressed out. We never have enough time to enjoy life anymore. We're all attached to phones, computers, blackberries that have email. All this new technology has made it so we have to do more things faster and have to have answers more quickly, no more anticipation for anyone. Anticipation made time go slow. Now we EXPECT everything now or yesterday...MOM
The only way to slow it down is to simplify the whole mess. I have let a whole bunch of celebration go by the way side. Identify what is most important for you and your family to enjoy and celebrate then let the rest go...I let go of all the Christmas baking,individual buying, and most of the house decorating. We take a drive around Missoula to enjoy the lights, attend school concerts to hear children sing, and relax at home watching the Christmas programs. If I see something that I think someone would like, I get it...if not then oh well.
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