Eight years ago, my blessed Father passed away near the end of September. Two months later, December 2003, I was still in no emotional condition to send Christmas cards. I planned to send notes in January, I had so much to tell! We had our first grandchild! Our son had safely served our country and was now out of the service! . . . but in the very first week of January, they were suddenly able to squeeze me in for the right hand surgery that I cancelled the day after we lost Pop. No Christmas cards, and no notes went out that year.
The next year {2004} the number of Christmas cards that we received dropped to half.
That's not all! The day before Thanksgiving {also 2004} {the year we received so few cards . . .}, I had a second surgery on the same hand. For that one, I got to wear a 10 pound cast that immobilized my arm from my fingertips to between my elbow and shoulder for six weeks. . . . again, I wasn't able . . . after six weeks in a cast, I wasn't even able to hold a pen . . . sigh . . . no Christmas cards, and after having the cast removed somewhere around New Year's Day . . . no New Year's letter to explain . . . you can imagine what that did to our Christmas cards the next year!
There were so many other sad and difficult events that took place in those couple of years that it even hurts to remember those times . . . At a time when we were absolutely reeling, so many of those who we thought cared the most, dropped us from their lists. When we could most have used the greetings, the remembrances and the cheers . . . old friends assumed we were cutting them off . . . so did the same to us.
Here is my plea . . . if you haven't received a Christmas card from someone with whom you have exchanged greetings for years, Call them! Check on them! Reach out to them! SEND THEM A CHRISTMAS CARD! This year AND next year, and the one after that! What's the worst that could happen? They could know that you care? Isn't that worth a few minutes of your time, and the price of a postage stamp?
I'll step down from my soapbox now. Thank you very much.
~Much Love! Merry Christmas!~
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Interesting perspective. I'm afraid part of the drop-off may be a cultural shift as less people send paper mail. I'm guilty as charged there. And frankly, embarrassingly, I just utterly suck at social conventions like Christmas cards. Sometimes people don't send cards because their lives are in stress or flux in that moment too!
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