For many reasons,the holiday season is stressful for most people. Being with friends and/or family or not being with friends or family can cause one anxiety. This is the first year in our lives that we will be with neither. There are no expectations from us or others. As I reflect on holidays past, many of which I have thoroughly enjoyed, I find little sadness in losing the stress of the holidays. The only stress would be brought on by nostalgia, not from loneliness. This is a totally different lifestyle than anything we have ever encountered. Holidays are part of the adjustment. We have a full schedule, just not with people we are used to spending this time of year with.
Observations:
We have been in San Benito for the past three weeks. yesterday was the first time I saw anyone fidgeting with a cell phone. To be in an enclosed area with 200 people and not see a cell phone is amazing. When people want to converse with others, they just walk over and talk to them. I commented on this to another one of the inmates and he said that it could be that the people are so old around here that they never had a cell. (I know that one is not true.)
Young folks with no kids and old retired folks love to have dogs. Young folks tend to have bigger dogs. Old people tend to have smaller dogs. It takes two or three of these scruffy critters to mop your floor with. We must not be old enough yet. No desire for a dog, even though I like them.
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