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I hate how the holidays create all this extra responsibility and stress out of nowhere and then the media / culture also act like you're meant to be having such fun the whole time (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by _number8_ to c/unpopularopinion

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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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And to think of the problems from the war dear old dad or mom was dealing with.

I watched a Yogi Berra documentary the other day. This fellow was pretty happy go lucky. It touched on his time during the war in the navy and his role of fishing out swollen dead bodies from after the D-day landings.

My first thought was my western 80s equivalent or today's avocado toast generations have no idea about those horrors first hand and they needed to carry on their lives without the mental health support many today are afforded. They were probably affected in cases by their WW1 effected family members too.

Can you imagine if we were to take off the rose colored glasses what we would really see with adult eyes looking back?

All these people dealing with such massive losses of loved ones and family members etc. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, etc. Then between those 2 wars the Depression.

In that sense I can see why it was so important to be thankful for what's left and what you have.

I just hope we all don't need to revisit the reasons why those times were good in that sense.