So Starbucks are advising. Goodbye pumpkin pie, hello yummy cranberry bliss! For various reasons, this past year has been a difficult one for many people. If you're reading this, it means you've survived 2014. You deserve to start celebrating...early - like now!! We, at the Pollyanna Department of Hope, believe that Christmas is a time of miracles, new beginnings, peace, joy and love.
The pleasure of Christmas should be prolonged. Every sparkly, altruistic, jolly, glittery, cozy, decadent moment, should be treasured. It will help eradicate all the misery of the past, and fuel your happy engine for the year ahead. You deserve to be happy. Christmas doesn't have to be expensive, nor does it have to be one big gluttonous pig-out. If you haven't spread much cheer in the past year, well now is your time to make up for that! Don't wallow in self-pity telling yourself how much you hate Christmas. Regrettably, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy!
Start early, create your own cards, give home-made gifts of baking, jewellery, or maybe even soap! Creativity can save you buckets of money, and double the pleasure for everybody involved. Set yourself a budget for Christmas and stick to it. Make a Christmas card list, and also your gift list. This is a time for remembering all those people who have touched your life in the past year. Your dentist, doctor, newspaper delivery boy, garbage collectors, etc. You'd be surprised how much it means to them! Each Christmas, a financially-challenged patient gives Kevin a little bag of home made cookies, and it means the world to him!
There is absolutely no doubt, the more you give of yourself at Christmas, either by volunteering, or spreading cheer, the more joy you receive in return. That's why I love dear old St. Nicholas!
Blame it on personal hardships, recession, computer technology, or whatever. There has to be a good reason why our world has become more insular, cynical, and sometimes lacking in good old fashioned fun. Loneliness and depression are on the up and up...Even the cats on the street are suffering from SAD, and some parents will not let their kids go trick 'n treating any more, due to all the food allergies, and predators, etc. Hello World - what's going down??
So, without further ado, get on board the Christmas Zumba train of thought...Let's sock it to the world!!
EnJOY!
Hugs,
Polly P xxx
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