Anticipating Christmas...

[fajrdrako]

From Livejournal Writer's Block: What is the most emotionally challenging aspect of the holidays for you? Do you enjoy this season more or less than you did as a child?

I think the most emotionally charged part for me is the anticipation of Christmas in early December: planning the presents, putting up the tree and decorations, thinking about special food. Transforming my environment - and seeing the city around me transformed - into something full of bright lights and excitement. All this while the weather changes: suddenly it's dark outside most of the time, and the world is white. Everything changes. By January, the cold and snow is old history, just something to put up with. But for a while in December, it's magical.

I don't think I could love it more than I did as a child, but I don't love it less.

When I was at commodorified's part a couple of weeks ago, a friend came in and said, "Other people are looking forward to Christmas. I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who special." That's a friend after my own hear, and that's an added bonus to Christmas I didn't have as a child.