like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach, otherwise you’ll feel even shittier and sadder for not having a happy holiday season
Marketing is a major component of what’s wrong with everything, not just the holidays, but I agree wholeheartedly that any of the positive aspects the November and December holidays bring are completely overridden by the stress of them. Which is the opposite of what they are supposed to be for