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 - eviltoast

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

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    “I couldn’t afford to buy anyone gifts this year”, is a complete sentence.

    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      It comes with a feeling of failure that’s hard to deal with. Even if I know it’s all a capitalist construct made to make me feel that way.