Christmas stress – where’s the spirit?

Jealousies may arise on the great gift unwrapping if a sibling gets a more personal or expensive gift than you.

Of course there are those who don’t have friends and family to share this day with and so they spend it alone. They may be happy to do so, or the ‘silence’ may engulf them and they feel more alone than ever.

There will be fights over spaces in the car park, while everyone is rushing about, doing everything at the last minute. You’d think with freezers we wouldn’t have to do that so much now, but it hasn’t changed.

Then there are the memories of those absent, those who aren’t around to celebrate and perhaps their loss is felt more at this time of year.

Lots of reasons to wish Christmas is over as quickly as possible and yet as each year passes, we seem to start the preparations earlier. Shops are displaying Christmas decorations from October; some people have their lights up in November!