![]() Yet their tearful recollections of festive woes came back to me. I brushed off their trivialities with the attitude that at least they had a family to go to. ![]() In times past, I dismissed my friends when they'd told me family Christmas isn't all that. Something convinced me that I was alone in finding Christmas difficult.īut the illusion has finally been broken. I imagined others would be revelling in happiness – tucked up in their childhood beds, conceding losses at Trivial Pursuit with a dazed, tinselled nonchalance. Why wasn't I like everyone else? What was I actually going to do on Christmas day? Assuming everyone else had families as peaceful as those on Christmas adverts amplified my anxiety. ![]() These questions, and the cover up, quietly diminished my sense of self-worth.
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