Ahhhh, Happy Holidays is a complicated thing, baby. Maybe you are happy to have a couple of days off if you are lucky. Maybe you are happy to be with family. Maybe you are happy to be alone. Maybe you want to just sleep all day and regenerate your frayed nerves. Maybe you want to get mercifully and forgivingly drunk.
Unhappy Holidays to some. Alone, broken and broke, lost without a compass. A thin, greasy burger in a McDonald's Parking lot on Christmas day. Coffee in a styrofoam cup. Watching your breath escape your lungs into the cold and praying a piece of hope has not gone with it.
There's a yin and a yang to the whole thing. Whatever makes you happy versus the impossibility of being happy to some at this time of year.
It ain't black and white, baby. Not all shiny lights and bulging bellies. We would all do well to remember that.
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