People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.