Title: The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
Headings: The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
Anticipation
Excitement
Satisfaction
Weakness
Depression

Content: Everyone was happy with the gifts you doled out; nobody judged your gift-wrapping skills, and your Mom got misty-eyed looking around at all her kids, home for the holidays. You’ve probably stuffed your face with more cookies and cupcakes than necessary, and since you’ve been up since 5 am, you’re in utter disbelief that it’s only 10 am. To put it plainly, your current status is fat and happy. The gifts have been opened, your belly has been stuffed and the delicious smells of even more food baking in anticipation for the visiting family members wafts through the air. As you kick back and reflect on the morning’s events, hugging your new fuzzy blanket against your chest, you realize this is what it’s all about — family, food and fun. You wonder what’s happening in your chest as you feel a weird sensation and then smile later upon realizing that your small heart grew three sizes that day. ( Insert eye-roll on my Grinch reference, but I had to!) Weakness
Must… eat… one… more… cookie. By 3 pm, you are beginning to wither away and have become merely a shell of the person you were this morning.