While many people will be gathering with family and friends this holiday season to eat, drink, and be merry, others may not have anyone with whom to celebrate the festivities. Here are some tips for how to handle the holidays alone:
- Just remember, a turkey dinner is a turkey dinner regardless of whether or not it’s deli-sliced and consumed directly from the packaging.
- Attending a holiday event for singles is a great way to remind yourself of the inability to connect with other human beings that landed you in this situation in the first place.
- Place several mirrors facing each other around your apartment so that it looks like there are actually an infinite number of people in your home, rather than just you.
- Keep in mind that Christmas is just a regular day, after all, no different than any of the other 364 days of the year during which you’re completely and totally alone.
- Take comfort in the fact that you’re at least not suffocating anyone else with your terrible personality.
- Avoid romanticizing what it would be like to be in a relationship with someone who truly understood who you were deep down, laughed at your jokes, held you every night, and placed your happiness above everything else in the entire universe.
- Use this time to reflect on the past year and set goals for next year before realizing that you’ve ruined your life so thoroughly that there’s nothing that you can possibly change.
- Take far too much comfort in every group text you receive wishing you a Merry Christmas.
- Only berate yourself as much as your family would.
Listen only to novelty Xmas songs, such as “Grandma got run over by a Reindeer” And the “Great White North” version of “12 days of Christmas”. As you listen, ponder the hidden inner meaning of each.
Hang out at TBP
Just remember everyone else is alone together with others who are on their cell phone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqODbP1T3nk&feature=player_detailpage
That’s a cruel post by the normally funny The Onion. Not funny. Just. Plain. Cruel.
Lighten up Francis.
The one about Grandma was really – Not funny. Just. Plain. Cruel.
This one is a sad reality for a lot of folks out there, too bad they don’t know about TBP’s after hours lounge.
“Lighten up, Francis.”
—-Admin @ SSS
No, I won’t. The Onion article hit me the wrong way, ending with this crescendo, “Only berate yourself as much as your family would.”
That’s way too much sarcasm for me to stomach. There are far too many lonely people out there who are where they are through absolutely no fault of their own. I repeat. The article was …… Just. Plain. Cruel.
SSS says: That’s way too much sarcasm for me to stomach.
Why do others come up with way better lines? I could have used that against I-S’ “Sarcasm, Mother…do you speak it?
Be lonely or you could get a pet.I got little bb .He goes everywhere with me at least while I’m on my routes and in my Truck.
OMG, T$C – if Admin could strike a deal with cat food makers he could make a killing with the huge single person household demographic.
I’m starting to think T4C and I were fledged from the same nest.
“Take comfort in the fact that you’re at least not suffocating anyone else with your terrible personality.”
I have the opposite perspective. I take comfort from the fact that no one is frustrating the shit out of me or driving me fucking nuts.
I’ve been alone for over 10 years now and I’m quite content. The loneliest feeling I’ve ever felt was when I was still with my now ex-wife.
The last gal I was with taught me to appreciate the piece and quite of being alone.
There was more but I deleted it.