Last year, I watched 50 holiday films consecutively. At the time, it was a way for me to not feel so blue about the holidays, as traveling during the holidays was a big part of my life.
Well, I’m not traveling in 2022 but while I do miss that Christmas spirit, there is part of me that really wants to do this again.
Yes, it was exhausting, it was a bit tough of trying to watch a holiday film when I wasn’t in the mood for it. Considering many are banal, some are cheesy. But at the same time, it brought me a sense of calm and joy.
I guess, maybe it helps bring me that joy of Christmas which I have not had for years. Or perhaps it made me have a sense of enjoying Christmas through Hallmark or Lifetime Christmas holiday films because my life is just not that cool.
I mean, what are the chances of going back to my small hometown and running into an old girlfriend and rekindling old romance? Or being stuck in an airport during a freak winter storm and having to share a room with a complete stranger and fall in love with her and she fall in love with me?
Of course, none of that should be happening because I’m a married man, who has a wife who finds it amusing that I did the holiday marathon to begin with. And wait until she finds out I’m doing it again in 2022! (I’m doing a cheesy one eye blink right at this moment)
But seriously, I do enjoy Christmas! I enjoy the spirit of it. The illumination of the lights, the holiday parties and all that fun stuff that I enjoyed while traveling overseas prior to the pandemic.
But I felt during the pandemic, aside from gaining that pandemic weight which I am very close to losing all of it. I feel like I missed out on the holiday spirit. I knew that 2020 just went by…but 2021, I felt that I needed to watch these films to bring that Christmas joy into my life.
Ahh… It’s one thing to enjoy Christmas as a child, but I think that having to enjoy the holidays abroad, brought me so much joy that I was hoping to do it again this year but unfortunately, the timing is not quite right for me to travel right now and it happens.
Last year, watching holiday films helped me deal with the medical situations I went through that left me bedridden for a shortwhile. This year, I’m dealing with the financial ramifications for those medical situations (sigh) but at least I can watch a marathon of holiday films to give me the sense of Christmas joy that I’ll be missing out on.
So, just know… Holiday Film Marathon for 2022 will start on Monday, November 7th.
