Just not feeling Christmas this year!!!?

Question

This is the first year ever that I just can't get that Christmas feeling! Ugh it's driving me nuts! We put up the tree, lights, made the gingerbread house, everything! I've tried watching Christmas movies and listening to music, nothing works! It's hard to explain, but normally there's like a smell in the air that gives me a great Christmas feeling. It's just wierd not having that! It's like my mind is with it, but not my heart. Know what I mean? What should I do? How can I get that Christmas spirit? (I am religious so I've also just tried praying and asking God to help me!)

Btw, I'm 13. (Turning fourteen on the 12th).

Answer 1

Could be that you're "Christmased out"
After all, they started it before Thanksgiving.
How can it be special when they make it last so long? Thanks, society, for turning one more special thing into an annoyance.

Answer 2

I feel like you. It is hard to get in the Christmas spirit this year. Seeing my family come here from up north usually does it for me. Christmas just ain't really been a "special" day. I mean you really dont' do that much that's different you know. You can buy gifts and get gifts from anybody any day of the year. I hardly get what I want anyway and it don't even last the whole day. I always remember the birth of Christ though. Just think about seeign some family emembers you haven't seen in a while or something of that nature. The music should also work. Keep trying that.

Answer 3

Usually at a young age, you don't feel like that at all, usually when you are older, you begin to lose touch with that great anticipation of Christmas, probably because you know that commercialism was the cause of that eagarness for Chistmas when you were a child.

However, I think it's due to the world moving at such a fast pace that we don't slow down and share the joy of the celebration of the birth and life of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Look at all that's going on around us. What happen to the simple life? We have gotten so deep into this high tech lifestyle with cell phones, internet, cable tv, reality shows etc......... that we have lost touch with those "old fashioned" activities that brought family close, physically, not long distance relationships, like nowadays.

Maybe, if you organize a Christmas gathering at your house, or in some other venue, for your family members to meet and pray, and eat together. Where you are responsible for creating a fun activity that involves remanicing about past Christmas' that the family shared and enjoyed, then you may get the spirit of Christmas.

God Bless you, and remember, "Joy to the world the Lord is come, let earth receive her KIng......" You know the words! Sing! I know I'm corny.

Answer 4

Relax. Don't go out hunting to find that feeling. Just take it easy and let it all come over you. It's the relisation that your not having the christmas spirit that's makes you panic and then it gets harder and harder. When you calm down, make a cup of cocoa, sit down on the couch with a blanket you'll get the feeling. Just forget about the fact that you actually didn't feel cristmassy and you'll be just fine.


A very merry Christmas and a happy new year!! :)

Answer 5

Sweetie its OK I have not always felt like celebrating Christmas like when my friend past away, or moving 3000 miles away from home and missing family and friends.

Jesus is the reason for the season and know that God loves you keep praying to the Lord.

Have you thought about volunteer work like at a hospital or nursing home to give back some of the blessings God gave you?

I volunteer at a hospital and it has been a huge blessing to me.

As you get older the feelings for Christmas change but don't worry there is nothing wrong with you you are normal.

Peace be with you and God bless you. Just enjoy the holidays and don't worry about the Christmas feeling.Just count your blessings and enjoy the moment.
E4g

Answer 6

I know what you mean. I used to absolutely love Christmas. The days leading up to it were the worst. I'd be so excited I couldn't wait. Now it feels just like any other day to me, and that upsets me a little because I used to love it so much. The worst thing is, where I live, there's not a lot of snow. We used to get some snow, but now we get hardly any, and it's hard to have a Christmas without snow. It just doesn't feel right, lol.

Answer 7

This is the weirdest coincidence ive ever had in my life (almost)
Im also 13 and i also have noticed that... everything on tv was about christmas...a very high spirit...but now i feel no one cares anymore...im losing that undescribable feeling that made me feel good in a strange way. I also pray that i can get to feel that strange feeling again, im really missing it. I think people are just tired of christmas, but i hope everythings ok when the time comes, and luckily it can be revived in next other years.

And im also religious...

Answer 8

The duplicity of Thanksgiving ruins Xmas for me every year. It's too much! It's the wrong time of year! I'm still full of Halloween candy by the time TG arrives!

And I can't help thinking about when Yule is over, the next week, by the first we have to take everything down and put it away and on into the bleak January, February, and often March. We need something in those winter months too, but it's all gone and spring is so far away. Bah! Humbug.

Answer 9

OMG!!!! I felt the SAME WAY!!!!! I am also religious and 13. 14 tomorrow! I asked God to help me. I don't know why but it just didn't seem like Christmas! Well, all that changed. I continued to ask God. He helped me. He let me know that no matter what, it was still Christmas. I started getting into the Christmas spirit, made cookies, went caroling with my family. It really helped me. I'm glad I could help you. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Answer 10

I just don't get why people are thumbing people down so brutally when they are just trying to help the questioner. Maybe it's the temperature, lack of decoration or spirit throughout your local area, or you just don't feel like Christmas this year for some strange reason.

Answer 11

I guess the trouble is, when we start relying on our feelings we spend too much time looking inwards - concentrating on 'me' when Christmas is not really about that. Why not read the story again in a modern version of the Bible and recapture the excitement that all heaven felt about what was happening. I bet Joseph was thinking "What a strange way for God to rescue the world".