WDC Mental Health Support Forum

With the 2020 holidays arriving, how are you holding up? How do your holiday plans look this year vs. most years? What's your plan to end the year on a positive note?

I really only have a couple personal calender events before my New Year at the Spring Equinox.

1. By Naw Ruz I suspect that covid-19 may be under some control. I want a vaccine so that I can safely travel, but I'm leery of the mRNA ones of Pfitzer and Moderna.

2. I am looking at trips and prices and covid insurance. Regardless, I've saved money by not traveling and suspect that I can be gone 8 months in Gregorian 2021 if my physical, mental and emotional health can take it.

3. My nerves are calming slowly as 4 years of chaos and venomous attacks come to a close.

4. I have eaten my two Thanksgiving meals I picked up for free today. I didn't sit outside with my friends as there was a flake or two in the air. It was freezing and I wasn't properly dressed to sit outside on the north side of a building with a cold breeze. Today I will eat whatever is around my place and not go out. I'm not starving and there is nowhere to go. Last year I spent the day with 4 other friends and a cooked goose. This year I'll sit in my room alone.

5. I travel a lot and prefer to be in Costa Rica in December and January. The weather and activities there are better than here. This college town curls up for a month. If I am here I'll have no plans. Chinese New Year of the Ox is February 12th. Taiwan? Again? I wish.

How am I holding up? I feel like I've wasted a year. I'm not happy.