172. It’s Christmas Day

December 25, 2023•Ep. 172•4 min 49 sec

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If you find yourself struggling on the holiday, this pep talk is for you. If this is the best day of the year and you don’t listen to this episode until next week when the holiday dust settles down…this pep talk is also for you. Because no matter how you feel about any single day, Nora reminds us a day is such a fleeting thing.

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I’m Nora McInerny, and it’s going to be okay.

It’s December 25, 2023. A Monday.

And for a lot of us, that means it’s Christmas.

It could be a happy and wonderful day. Or it could just be a day. Or it could be a really, really hard day for a million different reasons.

But this show is not called it’s going to be a hard day even though it’s christmas.

The show is called it’s going to be okay.

And the it today…is that it’s christmas today, but it won’t be tomorrow.

So if today is a tough one for you – a reminder of what you don’t have and wish you did, or what you do have that you wish you didn’t– tomorrow is December 26, and Christmas is over.

And if today is your favorite day of the year…I doubt you’re listening to a podcast right now. But if you are, and you LOVE CHRISTMAS. It’s over tomorrow.

Like a lot of little kids, my youngest child loves Christmas and, during the anticipation of this year…asked me, why can’t every day be Christmas?? And I said, well buddy, if something is every day, then it’s not special. It’s just a regular day. If we had Christmas EVERY DAY it wouldn’t be Christmas. It would just be another day like any other. And you’d get tired of waking up to presents and waffles and wrapping paper all over the floor and the dogs trying to eat your new LEGOs.

Things are special because they are temporary. And things are bearable because they are temporary.

In the end, whether we love it or hate it, embrace it or dread it…it all passes by. All of it. Even Christmas Day.

Wishing you all whatever kind of Christmas Day makes sense given the circumstances.

From me and the whole team at Feelings & Co: marcel malekebu, megan palmer, claire mcinerny, michelle plantain, grace barry and amanda romani, who mixed this episode. Our theme music is by Secret Audio.