Sad Holidays

[Callen Hale]

It doesn't feel like it's the Holidays yet...even when it already is.

A few years ago, I get to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve with my family, but then in the course of five or six years, everything has changed.

No one died, don't worry, but they all went away. Some left for Ireland and most are went for New York. Far places from home.

Ever since, it never felt...happy. To me and the remaining family I have here, which is not that many as it used to be, the Holidays are nothing but ordinary days. Not so ordinary, but not special either.

I missed those days and I wish those would come back. I doubt it though. My cousins who I used to play with, and me, we all grew up now. There's no more time for playing like the old days. Chasing each other around, eating together and stuffing ourselves, and doing lots of things that would probably drive the elder people crazy.

Those days are gone. Still, there's hope that the Holidays are going to be better than this when we all get together again. One big family reunion.