Mid-Holiday Season Update- How the 2025 Christmas Season is Going for Me

It’s about halfway through the month of December so I decided to write an update about how the holiday season is going this year.

So far, nothing exciting has happened. Well, there were exciting things that happened, but it was more related to everyday life and problems with it than the holiday season. As for the holiday side of thing, nothing has happened.

Among the “everyday life problems” I have, my friends and I haven’t been able to see each other. We talked about meeting up at a Christmas event, but all of use had “everyday life problems”. So we decided not to go. To be honest, I think that was the best decision. We’ve been either busy, sick, and/or something else has come up that prevented us from meeting up.

Traffic in my area has been pretty busy, which wasn’t a surprise to me. I have also seen so many poor drivers that I keep off the roads as much as possible. Earlier this week, I saw a car accident that blocked the main way I drive home. This is not the only accident I’ve been aware of over the past few weeks. I take traffic trend pretty seriously because of my vehicle problems earlier last year. My family and I eventually bought a new vehicle, which I’ve been careful driving. Even though I can’t control everything, there are some areas that have higher amounts of traffic than others. So, I’ve been avoiding them for the time being.

The reason this impacts my holiday season is because the areas where there is high amount of traffic are also areas where I want to go for the holiday season. These areas include shopping malls, festivals, ect. For the most part I haven’t missed out on shopping this year. I was able to purchase everything I want to give online. Everything is fine, but I am missing seeing the holiday decorations, attending holiday events, and holiday shopping in person this year.

By the looks of it, I’ll continue to stay home and avoid people. I still have a left over cough from a virus I had a few weeks ago, so I’m more than happy to rest more as Christmas approaches. I also looks like my friends won’t be able to see me before Christmas either. My family doesn’t do much to celebrate Christmas together (Have a big holiday dinner, hold a family reunion, ect.) so it’s either I hang out with my friends or I’ll be doing things alone. It’s ok and I’lll be fine, but I feel conflicted about it. On the one hand I’m really happy about staying home. I don’t need to worry about dealing with people and my cough flaring up. On the other hand, I feel like I’m ruining my holiday this year. Of course I’m not, but I feel a pressure to do something holiday related every holiday season. This year can be an off year, just like I’ve had before, but this year I feel a lot of pressure due to everything happening in my life to step back from added pressures I put on myself and focus on my top priorities.

To be honest, I feel much happier staying at home and enjoying Christmas the way I want to whenever I want to. There are so many social media driven trends around my area (Or at least it feels like that to me) for Christmas this year. Stepping away from the over exposure of it to focusing on my own life is something I feel drawn to do right now.

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

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