![]() This mass of pressure creates high expectations that are almost impossible to fulfill. We put so much build up and expectation into the vacation, a mass of pressure builds up. ![]() We love making memories and experiencing new things.īut vacations are a lot like holidays. We’re excited to visit the Magic Kingdom and overspend on food and hang out with adults dressed up like princesses (Halloween never ends for these adults.) Taking vacations and trips are very important to us as a family. This fall we’re going to take our kids to Disneyland for the first time. Here’s the deal: when we focus our attention and expectation and hope on the next big thing, we miss the small things all around us. Life is made of the small day-to-day things. They are the next big thing, something to be expectant for.īetween these big events, are the normal, average, small days. Holidays are the dessert, not the meat and vegetables. Real life takes place between the big events. Holidays are great, but life is not lived in the holidays. Adults love an excuse to be silly and dress up and eat their kids’ mini-candy bars. They take us out of our normal routine and make life a little more bombastic. They are full of decoration and tradition. Holidays are exciting and fun for us all. Christmas then Valentine’s Day then Easter then Cub’s opening day…and so on. After one is over, she asks us which one is next - trying to remember the order. ![]() Why is this? What about our culture makes us long for the next thing? The Next Big Thing They’ve become more about the long build-up, rather than the event itself. Holidays keep getting pushed on consumers earlier and earlier. I’m not hating on Halloween, I’m naming something we’ve all observed. Since moving to California it’s become one of my favorites (people take Halloween very seriously here.) Also, I’ve already drunk my obligatory pumpkin spice latte and it was delicious. 2 months of pumpkin everything.īefore you label me a Halloween Grinch, let me tell you that I LOVE this holiday. Everywhere I go I’m accosted and inundated with pumpkin. I don’t even need to mention this anymore, it’s already a cliché. Why so early? Is there a candy shortage this year that I don’t know about? Are we all so busy that we need a 2-month runway to get prepared for the holiday?Īnd then there’s all the pumpkin. Tell me you’ve noticed the same kind of thing. For the record, this was in the middle of August.
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