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Total lack of media articles on how painful and hard it is for people who often spend Christmas alone to be bombarded with endless messages that spending Christmas alone/without all relatives is so unimaginably awful, so worthless, so utterly unbearable.
It's like at first with lockdown/social distancing, to some extent it was validating all talk about the challenges of isolation or housebound but for some people, after a while it started to hurt that their normal existence is viewed as so awful and impossible to find joy in.
I've been lucky to have many Christmases with others. I've had some alone and Ive been able to find joy in the ones alone but the constant messaging that it's awful is making me feel like my life isn't valuable.
And the above is not at all to say the experience of Christmas alone this year isnt horrendous for most people and particularly horrendous for some situations. Just like first lockdown was.
It's just that repeated messaging that Christmas alone is horrendous when I'm trying to hold on to some excitement and pleasure is hard and it is difficult to stay resilient.
And it also just feels like yet again all the focus/media is aimed at the majority. Like there was so little interest in being housebound or remote accessibility before lockdown there's just no acknowledgement or recognition of the minority experience of often spending Xmas alone
Probably haven't articulated that well. It is just hard to stay positive about Christmas alone and my general life alone when everyone is saying it is so awful.
