>Yeah, this year I do. Valentine's Day is not a holiday which I hate
>consistently, like Thanksgiving or Easter, but one that I hate or love
>each year depending on my significant other situation, or lack
>thereof. I'm fickle. I've been in a consistent depressed funk since
>said significant other relegated himself to "good friend" status.I'm 26, and I have never, ever been in a relationship on Valentine's Day. On a good year, I get into a mild funk. On a bad year, I confine myself as much as possible to avoid triggering a murderous rage.
It doesn't help that I'm a hopeless, incurable romantic who'd very much like to enjoy Valentine's Day, but that the fates seem bound and determined to drive me to hate it.
>I also don't like Christmas, but a lot of people look at me like I
>just killed their puppy when I say that.
I used to enjoy Christmas. When I was little, it meant lots of toys and stuff. Later on, it meant going to see family that I rarely, if ever, saw any other time of year. Thanksgiving was also kind of like that; my mother was very good at keeping up the holiday spirit. Then, after burning out of college, I went from one job to another that kept me from spending holidays in a pleasant manner, first by restricting, and then altogether eliminating, familial contact during the holidays. Holidays 2K were the worst; while I love my old roommates dearly, they aren't the same as my family, especially after a rather disastrous attempt at Christmas togetherness with part of their family.
Then, right after that (couple of days after New Year's, a couple of days before her 56th birthday), my mother died, and I'm still reeling from that one. Spent this past Thanksgiving and Christmas with my father and sisters and niece and nephew, and it was enormously depressing. And because my car was in the shop, there wasn't anything I could do about it.
I think it's going to be a long time before holidays feel anything like holidays
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