I really don’t like this time of year, it may seem funny but this time of year has always been hard.

To explain I shall reflect back on the last few years, last year whilst my family was dealing with a bereavement, the one person on whom I was hoping might help had their own major issues to deal with, the funny thing was in this case that the issues they faced came from their past to haunt the future. The past sabotaging   the future which of course many of us do.

The year before or was it the one before that, I had the pleasure of spending one with a family who showed me what a family Christmas could be about, but as with all things this soon passed, one moments highlight in a an otherwise funny time, so it could be said that this leads me up to my next rant.

I really don’t understand this idea of wasting money on rubbish that I you don’t really want. Why do it? Will it make you happy to try to live up to an idea that is only really about getting into debt to ensure that you have to work for the next year, or the rest of your life in an ultimately unfulfilling job, chasing something which is always just out of reach ? Ok maybe I’m being more than a little cynical about this, but I guess that I’m allowed to be just a little.

I don’t understand the whole Christmas card thing, I really don’t. Sending a card to friends and family I do get, but sending on to someone that you really don’t like ...Why, I wish you no ill will, in fact I wish you good luck and happiness, but what I don’t want to do is waste time sending a card with fake plenitudes.

Does anyone else look  out at the rest of the world and wonder what it is all about, I really don’t get it, why put ourselves though this , for what reason ? WHY??

Ok I don’t get Christmas, but for most of the last 12 years or so I have had the pleasure of spending New Year, with first, The Sex Slaves from Hell and now Jonas Lift, after the sad demise of the Sex Slaves, with my friends dancing the night away.

Ok this has been a rant, but I ask that you spend a little time to think of those who do struggle at this time of year and include them at the very least in your thoughts.

All the best

Alex