Christmas Incredulity
This year, more than any other year in my fauxdult (that is my word for what I am: a faux adult; faux+adult=fauxdult) life, I don’t feel like it’s Christmas. I can’t believe it’s less than a week away. I’ve experienced this feeling of Christmas incredulity almost every year since I started college. But this year, the feeling is the strongest ever. I think it’s due to several reasons:
- I was gone for the first two weeks of December
- I missed my church’s big Christmas production that I usually help out a lot with
- I don’t have a Christmas tree
- I haven’t been over at my parents to help with any Christmas decorating
- I did all my Christmas shopping online in about an hour
Getting this feeling every year makes me a little sad. I remember how Christmas felt when I was little and how it was so exciting. I just couldn’t wait until Christmas and the days seemed to drag by. I think now that I’m out on my own, it’s probably going to be more important for me to establish my own Christmas traditions. Most of the previous Christmas traditions that tipped off my brain to the fact that Christmas is coming some way or another involve my parents or being at home. Now that I’m not at home or around my parents that much, there isn’t a lot to trigger the “Christmas is coming” feeling. Now I just have to think of a tradition I’d like to start. What are some of the Christmas traditions that you have?
December 20th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Surfing on Christmas day.
Makes the warm fire, snug clothing, hot chocolate, pumpkin pie in the oven, fiddle with new presents part all the better.
Contrast is the main idea here: cold/hot.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:02 am
It’s been in the 70s here lately, so I’ve had a hard time believing Christmas is so close. I mean, when you can walk outside in a t-shirt, it doesn’t feel like the right time to start singing songs about dashing through the snow.
I think what really throws me off is that this is the first year in, oh, my entire life when I haven’t been a student and had the 2-3 weeks of Christmas break. I’m working this week, and if I were a student I’d have this time to hang around at home, wrap presents, drink cider, etc. etc. etc. Can I be a kid again? Please?
December 21st, 2006 at 2:15 pm
I feel the same way about Christmas this year. Though I’ve tried with one tradition I have done for the last few years: a blogger’s countdown of the 25 Days of Christmas, I just haven’t felt the spirit this year. Christmas is approaching way too fast. Another tradition that I love is one my mother started. When she first got out on her own and Christmas came, she had no personal or special ornaments for her tree. So she decided as each kid was born, each year we’d get, choose or make an ornament, so when we left home we’d have something for our trees. One year we made time capsule ornamennts.