▣ Holiday Melancholia
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Everyone seems to become more sensitive during the holidays and if something is wrong, it feels much more wrong at that time than at any other time. Depression looms large when you've no one to share your life with and if you don't have much money it's easy to think there is nothing you can do to brighten your holidays.
That isn't True!
I like the idea of lonely people banding together to share the season like a family would. It may not be ideal but it can be special. Some recreation centers and senior centers have parties ect and are cheap to join but for those who this won't work for, there are still options. A friend of mine recently lamented that he had no car, no money, and his family wasn't even getting together this year for a celebration because they couldn't afford it. I made some of the following suggestions to him as well as some other ideas more personal to his situation.
Christmas is magic...don't forget it but let the magic reach out to and envelope you. Santa Clause is a spirit if not a man.
Things to celebrate Christmas with little or no money
Bake a gingerbread man
Make a wreath from a coat hanger and pieces of plastic. Shape into a circle and tie the pieces of plastic until the wire is covered. Glue a cut up recycled card or other things to it if you want.
Decorate house and tree with whatever you have to use. Brighten up the place.
Bake cookies
Boil poupori for a nice smell in house, or just bake, light a candle.
Gather pine cones and greenery to decorate
Take a walk in the snow
Call friends and keep in touch with people you haven’t talked to in a while
Send cards, make them if you need to, or just send letters. You can deliver them to people nearby to save postage or e-mail them if on the internet.
Clean house for holidays, then decorate. It cheers you to be in clean surroundings.
Listen to Christmas music on radio
Paint a Christmas scene
Write a Christmas poem
Write a Christmas story or a memoir of a special Christmas
Roast chestnuts on an open fire
Sip eggnog
Do a good deed for someone else but keep it secret. That makes you a Secret Santa.
Smile every day. Attitude is the most important thing.
Write down what you appreciate most about the people who are important to you and give the list to them. It will brighten their day.
Gather other lonely people and celebrate together, pooling resources.