“Please, read this text. It is of vital importance. Today it is one week left to christmas and you may have already started to stress over all that remains to be done in the weekends – gran who will be elected, the pats to be traded, food that is to be repaired, travel, bonusfamiljer and schemannsom to be pieced, dinners, and meet with a host of relatives and friends. But it is a stress which is worse.”
“There are people who are stressed over not having anything at all of all that to do. Not a few pats to trade or food to cook, not to meet someone. Who will sit on the subway or the bus on christmas eve without anywhere to go, baranför to avoid sitting alone at home. Who will sit in the waiting room in the emergency department only to finally hear someone call out their name, dial to switch on tv and bark at julprogrammen just to hear someone’s voice on the other end of the line. Or not say anything at all, not showing up for anyone because it is too difficult to have to admit that they are alone.”
“Christmas kills. Every year the roads (drive carefully!), someone puts a kalkonben in the neck, the partying goes overboard. But most take the loneliness. It is possible to die of a broken heart, it is actually a clinical diagnosis nowadays. And never made the diagnosis so often somnunder christmas. When all the others are full up with their stressful, with their community. Never is the need of a visit, a call, a hello or a smile larger.”
“Therefore, I ask you. Add a christmas gift on the list. This year’s christmas is not the recycled garment or some VR glasses. It is much cheaper, but at the same time, more precious than all of the other clapping for the one who gets it. This year christmas is you.”
“Look in the eye on the bus or in the subway, in the supermarket, on the street outside. Give someone a smile, let a man understand that you see the hen, know that the hen is. It only takes a second but the heat for so long.”
“Say hello to your neighbor. The one where the man you do not know anything about, despite the fact that you share walls, floors and ceilings, or property boundary. Rarely is the loneliness so great as in a solitary apartment or an empty house surrounded by other people’s families and communities.”
“Send a message to someone and let the man know that they are in your thoughts.”
“to Scroll among the names in the phonebook and discover that person you lost touch with, the friend you do not know where it was. More precious than the finest of christmas cards (remember those?)”
“Ask someone you never meet outside of work or school if they are going to be at home during the christmas season. Maybe they want to meet? It need not be anything in particular, just comply with when you and your friends are going on juldagsbio? Just to get the question means so much.”
“Bring a friend for coffee at a hospital or a nursing home. They usually have tea and delicious sandwiches and buns. And people who get a new life, of society, of changing a word, or just share a room and be seen and see.”
“It takes so little of you that give so much in christmas. I found on my instagram with more tips and hope you want to share with you too.”
