Presumably, by now the
presents are all opened, the feast has been devoured, and the recycling has
gone out. That leaves two tasks: thank you notes and returns.
As we sit down and tell
our loved ones thank you for their gifts, we might want to take a moment to
thank our bodies. After all, they
brought us here and let us experience the joys and wonders and more challenging
things of the season. They take care of
business items like breathing and circulating and processing so we can focus on
the good stuff. We are very quick to
notice when our bodies don’t get it all done and we are pretty harsh in our
criticism of how our bodies look. Take a
moment to chill out and appreciate how amazing our bodies are. Our backs deserve a pat, at least.
As to the returns, I have
nothing to offer on the subject of ugly sweaters, incomprehensible kitchen
items, and oddly inappropriate musical toys.
However, we can take the opportunity to transform what doesn’t work into
what does. Yes, that applies to taking
back the sweater and getting cute shoes instead, but it also means that we
transform that nasty comment from Aunt Mabel into either fuel for our journey
or background noise we pay no attention to.
We can choose what gifts we give ourselves.
Or, since it’s Boxing
Day, we can go hit some inanimate objects really hard. We can choose.
