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How Spending Christmas Day Outdoors Brings You Into the Present
Paradise at Christmas is just outside the door
Christmas is over and how do you feel?
Was Christmas Day as magical as the TV adverts promised? Did all that spent money make itself useful? Or was it all just another show that you’re glad has gone for another year?
The hype of Christmas is often more fun than the day itself. After all, it’s just another day. A day where you might’ve travelled far to see family, where you might have ruined a few kitchen implements or burnt yourself on the hob.
It’s a day when the rubbish bins pile up with plastic and wrapping paper. When you tuck into a huge dinner only to realise you’re so stressed out from cooking it you wolf it down without actually tasting anything.
Every year I hear people say that they’re glad Christmas is over. Yet come October they’re gearing up for the whole charade all over again. And why? Because adverts tell us to?
The glory of Christmas is out, not in
Christmas seems to pull us out of the present moment. We rush around buying last minute presents, going to the supermarket every day for things we’ve forgotten, finishing work before everyone shuts down their computers for…
