Repost: Taking the magic out of Christmas ... and bringing it back. Part 14.
"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly." ~Andy Rooney Part 14 is dedicated to Last Christmas. No, not the Wham! song, well, not entirely. Ya see, at the time of the original post, in 2012, that last Christmas (2011) was a tough one for me. I had mixed feelings about a lot of different things ... well, really, about everything. I mentioned in an earlier post that I hit my rock bottom in 2012, but the bottom started to become clearer and clearer sometime around October of 2011. At that time, an end was coming to my almost 5-year relationship and it was not even remotely close to getting any better, despite efforts to try harder, on my end. The thing about trying harder is if it's not a two-way attempt, it doesn't work. And this didn't work. Not for me. There was no trust, no affection, nothing that any good relationship should have i...