Taking the two statements “there’s no place like home for the holidays,” and “you can’t go home again,” seem to be contradictory. Yet both are very true and can easily coexist. Thanksgiving has come and gone, people have returned home and Christmas 2007 is yet to be. Although we would very much like to go home for the holidays, the home we would to return to really doesn’t exist anymore—it is but a memory locked in our minds. Each of us has preconceived notions about the things we liked best; and one of them is the holidays. The camaraderie, the excitement, the people we’ve met and loved, the whole aurora of the moment, exists only for a single day and then is filed away until it is brought our again the next time.
Yet that very brief time is what each of us lives for, ask the military personnel stationed away from home. Years later that same solder, airmen or sailor will recall that moment way from his loved ones with some fondness especially if they were with companions enjoying that same event. Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, or Fourth of July, it is the moment of happiness and togetherness we crave, After all, are we not social creatures accustomed to being with others of our own kind? The most difficult times are during the holidays. Suicides and depression increase; in some cases, the people who are suffering these experiences are surrounded by other people (in most case not of their own choosing).
With all that in mind, it is extremely important to remember others this holiday season e.g. distant relatives and friends and military people far from home. Email, write, phone or text message letting them know that you are thinking of them and that they are still in your thought and minds.
Have a very blessed Holiday Season and Happy New Year from Mrs. K. and myself.
K.
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