Christmas? Humbug!

With Christmas less than a week away, I can report that I have felt none of the Christmas spirit that gets talked about so often. I don’t know what it is, but I’ve never been filled with the type of warmth and good cheer tv tells me I’m supposed to be. Christmas is nice, but it’s also a pain, and seeing a thousand horrid Santa decorations isn’t going to put me in a better mood.

“Comes a time for Christmas and I really have to ask; if this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last?”

So begins my favorite Christmas song, and I think it’s a good question. My attitude towards the holiday probably has more to do with the expectation of what I’m supposed to feel, rather than how I actually do. It’s the knowing that I’m not a character in a Christmas movie that makes me start to wonder, not the actual thoughts in my head.

But, it does mean one thing. After years of talking to myself about doing it, I finally managed to sit down and write my own Christmas song, even tough it doesn’t actually mention Christmas, or serve as being the least bit uplifting. I wouldn’t be me if it were any other way.