The Best Gifts Are Not For Sale: How to Handle the Holidays

The holiday season is supposed to be a joyous time, but we know it is the time of year people find themselves more depressed than ever. People are having financial and personal problems yet still trying to keep up with the Joneses. Many of us feel we can’t enjoy life without having “that one thing.” For some, that one thing is a job. For others it’s a perfect relationship, or real and genuine love. Still others are looking for our own business, artistry, or investment to take off. We may always have life expectations but the degree of dissatisfaction heightens at this time of year.

Holidays can offer much pain, financial burdens and personal strain

Those of us who recognize the origins of the holiday can deliver long-winded speeches on Jesus’ true birthday and season (if indeed there was such a person), offer background on Saturnalia and Nimrod, or mention the correlation between Black Friday and the year’s last chance for big businesses to bring their books into the Black. Yes, those of us who consider ourselves “progressive” can disrupt many a party with these erudite emissions, making the case of holidays being meaningless.

But, is it?

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