I'm sorry you've had bad holiday memories in the past, but the holidays are a time to move forward from all that. Putting a bad time and starting over. It's all what it's about. It's not about the cool decorations of the stores, or the shopping, or the gift giving/getting. It's about renewal of spirit and strength, no matter how impossible it may be.

-Taki

I'm sorry you've had bad holiday memories in the past, but the holidays are a time to move forward from all that. Putting a bad time and starting over. It's all what it's about. It's not about the cool decorations of the stores, or the shopping, or the gift giving/getting. It's about renewal of spirit and strength, no matter how impossible it may be.

 

-Taki

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Just stay positive, and things will eventually start to get better. That's what I always do.

Good luck, A-A.

.:Sora:.

I'm with Taki and Sora. And I have something else to say, too. In my experience, bad things, no matter what, always lead to good things. I discovered this last year, when I was thinking about some of the bad parts of my life, and I realized that a lot of the good things would never have happened if the bad thing(s) preceding them had never happened. And the bad things can lead to good things directly, or they can lead to good things indirectly, because they influence your choices and what happens later in your life, eventually leading to good things. Here's an example I made up of the latter. Some guy is in an accident and looses his hearing. And while he struggles to learn sign language, he takes to writing more often than he ever had before, just for communication. And in doing so, he discovers that he likes writing. He starts to write stories, and then he learns to illustrate them. Eventually, some of his work gets published, and big art people see how good he is, and soon he becomes a very in demand, very successful artist. And he never would have had he not become deaf. Now, like I said this is made up, and although the good things that bad things lead to indirectly might not be of this scale, the good always outweighs the bad in the end. Always.