This time of year...

I've been chatting with a lot of friends lately and December is always this time for big reflections.


But also it's as if extra pressure will always arrive to make you face things more!
Ex girlfriends or boyfriends will suddenly be at the same places you are - the ones they definitely rejected throughout the rest of the year. Families will ask questions you're not used to them asking.
New years will loom up in front of you with a whole suitcase full of both great memories, and definitely in my case, some atrocious ones!


I've worked out I have what I'm from now on calling "baggage anniversaries"...

I'll find at certain times of the year I'm just completely stressed out without warning.
Perhaps I should have immediately "let go" and brushed off hurt from that relationship that crashed around me?
Maybe I should have gone for grief counselling when I lost a friend?
:)

but these aren't soooooo bad? I'm only briefly unbearable at points and try very hard to pull myself back together asap.

Baggage anniversaries are working out ok. It's like having put my luggage I've accumulated over the years on a sort of budget payment plan I guess!
We don't have to force ourselves to deal with everything we go through immediately I think. Just remember to take peeks at it everynow and then before you're buried underneath it all!