This article explores the unique pressures and traditions surrounding Christmas in Ireland, highlighting the common experience of feeling overwhelmed by the season's demands.
Christmas in Ireland isn't just a day; it's a carefully constructed house of cards with relatives, relationships, and deeply polarising debates about what qualifies as gravy. It’s a time for family, friends and magic; a great time to catch up and take a break from daily toils for a seasonal celebration of the year passed, and the new one coming. It really can be the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be incredibly stressful.
Every year, I tell myself I wont let it get to me, but every year it does. Thundering at me like a sleigh filled with deadlines, goal posts, lists of people I need to get back to, people I need to meet up with, emails to ‘close off before the Christmas break’, expenses, lists, and endless household tasks, all piled on top of a giant list of presents still to be bought, the costs and numbers of which seem to go up and up every single year. It’s a mad rush to get everything done before the New Year purge, and we’re all in a race against ourselves, the ticking countdown to the big day made louder with words of “are you all set” bombarding our, until hearing that phrase, previously subdued internal panic attacks that have been brewing from the second last week in November. I’ve managed to escape seasonal depression the last few years, but this year I wonder whether I might have just skipped straight to the year-round variety. I’ll come back to that one in my own time… Humans are fanatics by nature, and it’s never as obvious as is at Christmas. We take on too much, refuse to say no to anything, and want to give everything our all. That’s not all you’ve to contend with. Family drama, friend drama, the will I/won’t I gift considerations
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