The Oh, Hey, happy, happy holidays if you're celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas, if you're just celebrating the holidays in whatever your tradition is happy

holidays to you I wondered what I should post today.

We had all sorts of video concepts

that we wanted to do towards the end of the year

with the weeks we have left,

and none of them really felt right for Christmas Day. We instead

decided to really reach out to people where they are today.

Christmas and the holidays in general are a great magnifier.

They're a magnifier for joy, if you're feeling a lot of joy in your life right now if you're in an

amazing relationship and you're excited about sharing the holidays with that person or

if you have incredible family around you that you've been looking forward to seeing

and you're already excited about that, the holidays become a wonderful magnifier for all of those

wonderful experiences. But they can also be a magnifier for pain.

If there's someone in particular you're missing this Christmas, if there are people that have

left your life, either through death or through breakups, then it can be an incredibly

painful time and one that reminds us of what we don't have right now.

And that extends to family and friendships,

if you feel particularly lonely right now in your life,

the holidays are a time where you feel even more lonely,

especially when you go online and it looks like everyone else is having this

Hallmark Christmas or you're watching the actual Hallmark holiday movies and you're seeing all of these quintessential beautiful happy ending versions of the

holidays it can be this really stark contrast with what we find ourselves experiencing today.

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