Imperfect holidays

I was watching one of my favorite YouTube channels, Escape to rural France, where Dan the builder was explaining what he was doing, and you could see his breath because it was so cold. This brought to mind my least favorite cable channel, Hallmark, and its famous Countdown to Christmas movies. I've been forced to watch a lot of those movies with my elderly clients. Sure, the movies are great, nothing traumatic ever happens to anybody, and the endings are always happy, but they are never based on real life.

If you watch any Hallmark winter movie closely enough, several themes emerge. Nobody's breath fogs up, ever. This is impossible to achieve in natural settings. Also, people don't button up or zip up their coats and don't wear hats in the middle of piles of snow. The characters in Hallmark movies can walk up and down sidewalks with their coats open or talk to each other outside the front doors of palatial homes in their shirtsleeves without ever getting cold and they can get snowflakes in their hair without those snowflakes ever melting.

They must have superpowers, or the amazing love that surrounds them and the support they get from their perfect friends and family members makes them impervious to low temperatures. Or, and this is a big one, they are acting in perfectly climate-controlled movie sets and the snow isn't real.

The holidays are fast approaching, first Thanksgiving, then the year-end holy days including my favorites, winter solstice and New Year. Social media feeds will fill up with photos of smiling people, mountains of cookies, and loads of presents. Yet, everything is rarely perfect.

We don't live in movie sets. Our breaths fog up if it's cold outside. We have to zip up our jackets and wear hats and gloves to get through the freezing months. 

It's okay if your life doesn't measure up to a Hallmark movie. Nobody's does.

 



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  1. SiriusNovember 14, 2024 at 11:18 AM

    Quite true. What we describe as the true Christmas Spirit is something that should be present tangibly in our everyday life 24/7/365. Obviously, that is way too hard to manifest for the majority of us. So instead, people fake during a couple days of year. Not all, though. I'm sure some people catch the true feeling and enjoy it. Mainly those who don't need materialism and Hallmark movies in order to get their Xmas high. Speaking of that...Hallmark has blessed the planet this year by making one more cheesy Xmas movie - in Finland. It is called 'The Finnish Line'. https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/the-finnish-line . As a Finn, I guess I should watch it. Just for laughs. But I have better things to do. Thank goodness for that. Merry Everyday to all! :)

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