Is it normal i hate christmas?
I seriously do. I can't stand Christmas. I don't celebrate it...I deal with it, I get it over with..
It's not a time of joy, it's a time of stress and complications. My job is so stressful around Christmas and they always make me work on the days where I have to be with the family, and the family asks me to ask them to take off for one of those days, which I can't do. Then they get pissed off at me. So then I have to try anyways and ask the people at work, then they get pissed off.
But when we spend time together at Christmas as a family, it's just the same as it is every year, a bunch of obnoxious people that I don't want to be with, talking about dumb things nonstop and drinking. My dad and my uncles are all in the TV room watching a football game ignoring everybody else, while my mom and my aunts/grandma are talking about all sorts of dramatic bullshit for hours. It's a huge waste of time, and yea I get a few presents, the biggest one being the headache I have when I leave. I don't need presents. Not that I don't want them, but it makes me feel like a spoiled little kid. If I want something I'll just get it with my own money, I'm a working adult. And it pisses me off how much money the family throws away on getting things for everybody else. Yes, a few presents, that's fine. But they spend like 200-300 dollars. We could have put that towards a decent vacation but no..
The fact that it's talked about so much for over a month before it happens to "get everyone in the spirit" annoys the hell out of me. All it does for me is remind me constantly of what I'll have to deal with.
I used to love Christmas, but that was when I was a child, so it was way different. I just hate it now. Whenever it gets close to the season, I don't get excited, I feel like there's a weight being put on my chest, and I just want to get it over with. I guess you could say I'm a Scrooge. Does anybody else feel the same about Christmas?