Mattering.

It's what really matters!

Christmas day 2024.

... pause ...

So.

Christmas isn't what it used to be.

Not much of anything is, of course!?

Ai-yi-yi! Eh?

The world is plain cuckoo - up-side down, in-side out, backwards - bonkers, surely, in every possible way.

Details not important ... & I for one don't feel even the slightest inclination to create any sort of depressing list here, now.

But here's the thing:

A few weeks ago a friend & I were having some laughs - & a glass of wine or two (for the record, these days I drink less, & much less often, than I used to).

I was definitely a wee bit tipsy, & we were both in fine form, yakking our socks off & making one another laugh.

& I said a thing that my friend L. actually wrote down & later sent to me via text, so I'd be able to remember it later too.

I said "Mattering to other people is what matters.......... It means so much to matter!"

& I think this is true.

We all have such very different lives, don't we??

Most of which never turn out quite the way we had planned... for a very slight understatement, hmmm??

We have our broken &/or dysfunctional families/relationships.

Jostling mightily just about everywhere we go these days with the multitudinous "elephants in the room." (Yikes on that score. Just … yikes.)

Living in a world growing ever more chaotic all around us.

Still.

We all matter to someone.

Maybe many someones!

& that's what matters.

Right??

Janet

p.s. Well. & maybe making sure we help others feel they matter too. 'cos we ALL matter. Or we all ought to, at any rate...

p.p.s. you might enjoy reading my Christmas-y post from last year.

Christmas Eve Day 2018: Small Christmas Miracle?

A "recycled" posting from the vault...