Don't ask me about Holidays and I won't ask you about your daily grind

’Tis the season for the reason, so what would be more fitting than for people to invade your space wherever you turn. Obviously this is a hot subject because everyone wants to hold onto their belief system, no matter if they even remember why they believe what they believe, and seem to have an insistency on trying to make you believe their own beliefs.

I dropped my son off at school and an instructor there inquired if I was ready for the holidays. I just looked at her blankly, gave her my blasé smile [ the “ you are shitting me that you are actually inquiring about this” smile] and I answered her with a plain “yes”. End of conversation. I don’t do Holidays. Any of them. Name one and I don’t fancy myself engaging in it. Now, the very important part to understand here is that at the same token, I absolutely honor what others choose to celebrate in their Life.

Here is why I don’t celebrate holidays. I don’t have a religious foundation to bind myself to any religious holidays or festivities. I partake in activities if I am generously and kindly invited by people who want me there simply for my presence. And I absolutely respect people who are so religiously devout that they pay tribute to the God or gods they have chosen. On the other hand, there are even more people nowadays who have succumbed under the spell of consumerism and commercialism with the thin cover of “ it’s about making memories” and “spending time with your loved ones”.

Ha! I literally can’t with that. I wholeheartedly make it known every day to whomever I love, what they mean to me. I spend myself energetically, physically and spiritually on the ones I love, because as life is, every day is the only day I have to celebrate. Celebrate Life. Celebrate the ones I love. Please don’t wait for “ a special occasion” or day to arrive so you can express how you really feel. Make the time now, because you will not get any time back. Ever. In my previous work experiences, I have encountered so many tragedies, where people have lost their loved ones and they did not MAKE the time to celebrate them. Showing them their appreciation and Love.

There is one particular recent encounter I had, where the client had a biopsy done and after completing the procedure, found out that it takes 7 days for results to arrive. Her reaction was instant anger, yelling at me:” You mean to tell me I have to wait 7 days to find out if I am dying?!” I could not respond to that. I was only able to hold my own space. There was no way that I could have shared my immediate thought with her. “ Lady, you have been dying from THE second you were born. If you haven’t figured that out by now, I doubt you will in this Life.”

Here is what I choose to celebrate and embrace. If you know me personally, you know that I enliven this: I choose to celebrate Life. Daily. However she shows up for the day, I am deeply grateful and embrace her with all my enthusiasm. And hopefully everyone I encounter each and every day gets at least a sprinkle of my loving life confetti as we pass one another.