More Festive reflections

What can I say that I haven’t already bored you with in December postings over the past 14 years or so?
I love Christmas, and I consider it to be a lengthy event rather than a single occurrence; a fortnight of festive celebrations, not a day of presents and turkey. I get a warm glow that lasts right through until my birthday, and then my birthday celebrations take me right through to Spring. This year, more than ever, I am feeling contented, satisfied, happy, fulfilled and grateful.
I don’t really want to share too much with you about our little family get-together, because it was personal to us, and wouldn’t mean much to anyone else, and I don’t want to bore you with loads of stories about a group of people you’re not familiar with beyond the things I’ve written about them in this blog. I’m not one of those people who post countless photos of their movements on social media, and I’m not a fan of the people who do. I genuinely have NO interest in what your average, everyday person is doing in their average, everyday lives, and I think there is something wrong with anyone who shares their private lives publicly as if they’re a character in The World’s Most Important Soap Opera. I know I’m in a minority, but I do believe that what goes on behind closed doors with your nearest and dearest should only be accessible to the people that are there, not plastered all over the internet for all and sundry to gawp at and compare themselves to.
What I’m trying to say, and hopefully not causing too much offence whilst doing so, is that I have ZERO interest in the minutiae of most people’s lives, and I cannot understand why anyone else would be interested in the minutiae of mine, so I shall not be sharing what we did, or didn’t do, or talked about, during our Christmas break.
(Having said all that - and knowing full well I may come across as a hypocrite - I have every intention of keeping this blogsite going throughout 2022!)
So all I will say is this: family is everything, and mine is an absolute gem. Time together is important in the extreme, and after the horror of having to keep away from loved ones during lockdowns and surges and waves and variants, it was such an absolute joy to be together and enjoy each other and to not be thinking about case numbers or symptoms or PCRs.
Christmas 2020 was brilliant in its own way, but 2021 has reminded me just how much I love this time of year, and why. If you get it, you don’t need me to explain it to you, and if you don’t, then nothing I can say will change your mind, and I pity you.

RC 30-12-21