Do you know a holiday saboteur? You know who I’m talking about don’t you? It is the person who agitates others during holidays. It is the person who argues with everyone…about everything. It is the person who has a permanently unhappy disposition in life. It is the person who grumbles about things that really don’t matter in the larger scheme of things.. It may even be the person who checks you out, as you hum a little holiday cheer, while you purchase your gifts. Bah Humbug!
Why, for goodness sake…this holiday saboteur may even be a member of your own family! Egads…what are you going to do? Uninvite them immediately…move out of state…get divorced so you don’t have to deal with them anymore? Surely, you aren’t going to take it that far to avoid the holiday saboteur?
Assure me that you aren’t going to let them do it this year; don’t let them steal your joy. Not at the office, not at the local gas station, not in the llllllllllloooooonggg line in the post office, not on the highway…not on the subway, not at the Christmas/New Year’s eve party………most certainly tell me that you aren’t going to let them get to you when you visit them….and definately, don’t let them bring you down in your own home! Why, that is your happy, safe place…or it should be.
Instead, might i suggest a little something- something to change it up a bit? Why not, throw them off balance with a holiday super charged, joyful, in your face celebration?
Maybe they will do one of two things…perhaps they will get so shocked by such a display of holiday cheer that they will come over to the dark side and actually CELEBRATE; or, they will get totally annoyed at the lack of indulgence of their perpetually bad behavior; they will get up and leave, when no-one feeds the flames of discontent by politely listening to their moody, morose …angry and controlling ways!
Either way…you are free to have a happy holiday get-together any way you choose to celebrate it! Unless the holiday saboteur lives inside of you….egads…I hadn’t even thought of that…did you?
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