The Post-Holiday Feeling: At Least You Have That Wine Carafe
As another set of holidays passes, I think about the good times spent with family and friends - the laughter, the jokes, the feelings of nostalgia and warmth, the memories we made as we reflect on another year gone, further defining our experience and what we know. I also think about how we really received some beautiful gifts for host. Our parents brought us a wine carafe from which we will drink the twenty or so expensive bottles of wine brought to our home by our friends. John and Marie brought deserts served on glass cake stands, which were the real gifts for host. Of course we mixed martinis and gin and tonics in our barware and my wife had organized the tabletop accessories so that everything looked beautiful. Overall it was a very successful holiday - everyone ate well and had a good time and it was enough to get us through the end of winter, at least until Valentine's Day.
The way to do it is to remember how delicious all the food was when you're sitting in your office or at your cubicle watching the gray sky, imagining the blue above the clouds, and how you can maybe see it, no, wait, that's just the whiteness of the gray… January is a long month, let's face it. You can try to spice it up by getting Chinese food for lunch and remembering the celebratory nature of December, but it's a lot like early childhood: not particularly pleasant, full of a lot of questions and changes, attempts at redefining yourself while you can get away with it. Because the year is still young everyone wants to shape themselves and their expectations, but by March, when everyone begins to understand how the New Year is taking shape, what's on our plate, etc., they return to their normal selves, no longer sad and nostalgic or celebratory and happy. The warm weather shows signs of hope and expectancy that had long been suppressed and forgotten. That's not a bad thing either, it's just what to expect.
And when it finally does start getting warm and the holidays are months in the past, the snowy weather and desire to stay inside all day will seem long ago, innocent, naive, before all those now-familiar changes occurred. But at least we'll still have the wine carafe our parents gave us and a few bottles of nice wine to enjoy.
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