For most people Christmas and the holiday season in general is a time to come together with family and friends to celebrate with good food, good drinks, and have some quality time together. For a lot of people however, this time of year can be filled with dread, sadness, and despair. A couple of years ago I realized that, and thought that with all we use social media for, why not use it as a medium for the people that arent having holiday cheer. Last year I made a post and wrote that anyone who was suffering during this time with sadness or grief, was free to message me and Id be more than happy to be an ear for them. I ended up talking to a woman who was spending her first Christmas without her husband after more than 20 years together. Another lady who would be spending her first Christmas alone, without her dad. I talked to a guy who was without his kids, as he and his wife had split and he was alone and not in good shape during this time. I asked my other Facebook family to join me in this, and volunteer to be an ear to anyone who needed it as well. So Im going to do the same this year. WE have this unique thing in social media where we can connect with each other, and dont often do so in a meaningful way. Or at least not as much as we could because were so busy sharing cat memes and having rants about things that at the end of day, dont REALLY matter. So here we have a chance to just open up a line of communication with someone who might be alone in this time, and might be in a lot of emotional pain over loss they have had, and could really just use someone to talk to about it. So if anyone needs an ear, feel free to message me. And once again, anyone that wants to do the same for people, feel free to chime in this thread as well. Thanks guys.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:08:01 +0000
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