Happy New Year, Guess Who?
Now that our lives have finally settled after the holidays, what with the constant socializing, exchanging of gifts, feasts, and parties, we can reflect on all that is good about the season. I truly believe that Christmas and New Years is one of the greatest times of the year. This season, which is basically three weeks of the calendar year, is in essence an extended vacation. It is the one time of year where even if we haven't gone away or for that matter taken time off work, we tend to live a bit more extravagantly. We eat more, drink more, spend more money, work less hard, go out socializing more, and above all, we are showered with gifts. Regardless of how festive we are the period of around December 10th through January 2nd is the epitome of gluttony. Everything we do during the season is done in excess. The masterstroke of all this is after nearly 21 days of lavish living we get the opportunity to jump on our own personal soapbox and declare a New Years resolution. Despite exceeding our own reasonable boundaries for nearly a month we get to then declare we are going to reduce one of our abnormal conditions that we have likely been abusing during the holidays. It is like living a month of sin and then immediately getting a free repentance to wipe the slate clean. Whoever thought of that was brilliant!

Yes, the holiday season is clearly one of the highlights of the entire year. There is very little that can bring us down. However friends, there is one drawback to this bright season that fills the latter part of December and early days of January. The holidays provide those who we don't want anything to do with an excuse to contact us. "The Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Years" wishes are the perfect "in" for ex girlfriends to pick up the phone and call. With perhaps the exception of our birthdays there is no other time of year where the rejects of our lives get a better chance to contact us without having to concoct a reason. Any other time of year, these outcasts need a basis or motivation, regardless of how fabricated, to provide rationale to why they are calling us. However during the holidays they need no justification, just a simple "Oh, I just wanted to wish you a happy New Years…" is all that is required to get their foot in the door. Despite how endearing I find this festive time of year is there is nary a December that goes by that I don't have to endure a painstaking conversation with one of the dregs of my past. And god forbid you have to suffer through a "pop in". Be cautious because during this time of year our ex's get bold, the holidays give them license to. Whether it is a visit, a phone call, a card, an email or a friggin smoke signal, they will use the holidays for another chance to bug us. Be warned gentle reader, the holidays provides those excluded from our lives a free pass to get one more conversation or just a bit more face time with us.

I find it ironic that New Years is always synonymous with the feeling of a fresh start yet inevitably during this time of year we are always haunted by faces from our past. One of the unfortunate qualities of "seasons greetings" is that anyone has the right to wish them. We have to learn to be prepared to receive tidings of joy from anyone, regardless of their standings in our books, because correspondence from ex's is a holiday certainty. Perhaps the next time we jump on our soapbox and declare our New Years resolution our decree should be "this year I vow I will finally get call display!!!"

…but that's just my opinion.

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