Anyone else feeling like their holiday spirit is waning over the years? I feel with each year my Holiday spirit, gets less and less. I’ve especially felt it this year.

I used to love Christmas, the decorations, the music, the act of giving gifts. Every year the Christmas tree would be put up the day after Thanksgiving. It was my favorite thing to do. This year, I haven’t even put the tree up. Honestly, I am not sure if I will or won’t.

I can remember growing up, we all used to pile in the car as a family and drive around to look at the decorations that people put up, it was especially impressive when you would drive down Jefferson and see all the big houses covered in Christmas lights.

The ugliness that I see in the World over the years during this time has jaded me. It’s the heaviness that presses down on that spirit not allowing it to come to the surface.

Christmastime used to be about coming together and showing common human decency to one another, but I have not seen a lot of that going around. These days people are about being divided and treating others horribly.

We have no idea what another person is going through in life and even if the only thing we can give is smile, maybe that makes all the difference to that person.

My Christmas wish this year is that we all start being a little kinder to one another and maybe in seeing some of that kindness, I will slowly regain some of the Christmas spirit that was lost over the years.