You expect the best of things to come at Christmas. It is also a time for reflecting on the good in the past year. Season's joy, be grateful for what you have and all that.
A challenge when all of this year, and the year before, you thought of nothing but when the bombs will fall.
Rations worsening, death constantly on the brain, and the radio. Love ones off fighting for who even knows anymore. So the best you can really do this Christmas is be grateful that you are alive, that there are people out there and in your home that live still, for now. And you can wish for a new year where the fighting will just stop, that the magic of the holidays will be felt by our allies and our enemies, and it will not be a seasonal occasion; a temporary moment to have a heart, to care for life, and leave us all be.
We didn't ask for this.
Christmas gives us hope in the darkest times. Will it hold out? I want to believe yes. I desperately wish for that hope to be real.
Happy, existing new year, everyone.
"Society isn't kind to introverts."
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