Situations are just situations UNTIL you give it meaning.  Right?  So stop giving yourself unnecessary stress over the meaning you’re giving things.

It’s the holidays for crying out loud.

Think about it.  Bills have no emotions.  Gifts have no emotions.  Sitting in traffic has no emotions.  Shopping in crowded malls has no emotions.

It’s just a situation UNTIL you give it meaning.  And no.  You don’t need to be stressed to feel important.  Gain significance from your friends another way.  Telling them how much more stressed you are than they are, shouldn’t have to make you “closer.”

Can you say, “pity party?”

As one individual put it:

“Give up the need to reason, why things happen the way they do.”- Caroline Myss

If anything, this is probably the source of most of your “holiday stress” – if you want to even call it that.  Reasoning with yourself why things happen the way they do.

Listen… who cares WHY things happen.  It happens to all of us.  However, attaching negative emotions to it is where we differ.  And that’s where the stress comes in.

So as we near some of the biggest holidays of the season, realize that it IS possible to survive the “holiday stress.”  Because what happens to you has nothing to do with the situation – it’s the meaning you give it.

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