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Being alone all day is only a "treat" when, as someone said, it's optional and you're not alone every other day, LOL!
I disagree. I'm alone every other day (I have no family closer than a 5 hour drive and no local social circle to speak of, outside of coworkers), yet I still choose to make Christmas alone a treat. I look forward to my solo Christmas.
Me, and I'm more than "okay" with it. That's the way I prefer it. After spending many years driving long distance and fighting DC Holiday traffic for the privilege of watching spoiled nieces and nephews shred mounds of wrapping paper in record time, I decided that I'm much happier staying home by myself. I've created a bit of a tradition for myself ... I buy new pajamas for Christmas Eve and put something in the crock pot all night to have for breakfast in the morning. Christmas morning, I work on a new puzzle, watch "Love Actually" and then a couple other movies (this year it will probably be "The Martian" and a TBD musical), then I make myself a nice dinner later in the evening (probably still in the new jammies, to be honest. LOL).
Yeah, the Mrs. always insists on driving to see her family a couple hundred miles away, I'd just as soon stay home. No family of my own left that I care to go out of my way to see and I'm pretty much tired of the commercialism. I'd rather just have a big feast with plenty of good food and good booze, if no one else wants to do it I can just stay home and do it by myself.
Maybe I'll come up with a way to get out of it this year.
How are you defining alone? Without a single solitary friend or relative anywhere in the world?
That (there are such specimens, believe it or not), or... Just not having anyone emotionally close enough to spend Christmas with... Pitying friends who offer to awkwardly include you in their OWN intimate family gatherings don't count, as that's more depressing that being alone.
I'm quite comfortable with myself, thank you. However, I don't engage in "social" activities alone. I compare it to getting up on a dance floor at a wedding during a slow dance and swaying around by myself. Going to a movie alone? Fine, because you shouldn't be talking through it anyway. Dining in a restaurant? It's meant to be done by two or more people enjoying each other's company as much as or more than the food, which can be delivered or taken out. The German waitress probably feels sorry for you...
But we digress!
I love eating by myself when I get the chance, but I always have a book or something to read with me.
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