Guide for Enhanced Comfort and Increased Happiness
In the heart of the holiday season, a reflection from an author who shares a personal journey of wanting more - not more of what they were pursuing, but more love, connection, laughter, and adventure.
The author, in a bid to show love, had resorted to buying multiple store credit cards to afford Christmas gifts for their daughter. However, they now see gift giving as about smiles, hugs, and time spent with loved ones, rather than the size of gifts.
The holidays, the author notes, can bring out the best and worst in people without them realizing it. It's a time when we often overdo spending, eating, drinking, decorating, and under-do self-care. The author encourages readers to pause and ask themselves what they really want, especially when they are hyper-focused on quantifiable things.
The quest for more, as the author experienced, led to working more, shopping more, spending more, eating more, owning more, and owing more. This pursuit never resulted in true satisfaction, as it was never enough. The author's spending on Christmas gifts, for instance, led to a spending hangover by January 1st.
But the author is not advocating for a Scrooge-like approach to the holiday season. Instead, they suggest finding comfort and joy in quiet moments, listening to favourite holiday songs, waking up early, or taking a walk. Meaningful gifts, such as telling someone how you feel, a playlist of meaningful music, a love note, or a walk around the lake, can bring more warmth and connection than any store-bought present.
The author plans to celebrate the holiday season in a way that feels good and finds comfort and joy in less. They encourage readers to remind themselves what they really want more of and shift from overdo to under-do. The holidays are a time for love, connection, and joy, not a competition to out-gift or out-decorate others.
In times of heart-break, great uncertainty, self-doubt, or worry, the author craved more. But they've learned that the cravings for sugary, fatty, rich food might not be about the food itself, but about a feeling of fullness, abundance, or completeness.
So, this holiday season, take a step back, reflect, and ask yourself: What do I truly want more of? Let's make the holidays about love, connection, and joy, rather than about more stuff.
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