This Holiday season has been one of the most trying for me. The holidays are always a hectic time, full of stress and running around. However, this year, my family endured some hardships that were completely unforeseen.
My boyfriend lost his job, leaving me to pay most of the bills, but since I work for a school district, I have two weeks off, unpaid. We decided that the only thing we could do in order to pay the bills was to return our gifts for one another. So, last Thursday, I came home and we unwrapped our gifts to each other and that following Monday, we went to all the stores we bought gifts from and returned everything.
My boyfriend was irate over the fact that I wouldn't be getting the Samsung Tablet he had picked out for me. He said that he felt like a failure and he told me that I deserve so much more than the situation had granted us. I told him that they are just things and that what matters to me during the holidays is being with the people that we care about and spending time with them, eating and making memories.
I know that this post is random and has little to do with makeup, but I started thinking about everything earlier when I was cleaning my room. See I am a goo-hoarder. I have way too much makeup for my own good. I will NEVER use all of what I have and yet I continue to buy more unnecessarily. I want the new and hottest makeup because I truly enjoy trying new things and seeing how they work. That is precisely the reason I started this blog. Makeup is fun, but I started to realize that I spend a lot of money on things that aren't important.
I think for 2014 I want to start making the most of the time that I have with those that matter most to me. Instead of being the introvert that I normally am and focusing on myself, I want to start spending time with the people that truly love and understand me.
Things can make you happy, but that happiness never lasts, we just move on to what is shiny and new. People caring and supporting one another because they thoroughly enjoy being in that person's presence and understand how important and special that person is makes it all worth it. All the stress and anxiety, anger and sadness we suffer through as humans is worth it when you have people you can turn to in those times, and people you can have fun with after the hard times have passed.
Life is full of give and take, but make the best of both with the people that matter most.
