Am I a Grinch?

You're a Total Grinch

Ouch! You make the Grinch seem like Santa Claus. Holidays definitely aren't your thing. Just relax, and create your own tradition. Even if it's drinking spiked hot chocolate and heckling carolers.

Are You a Grinch?

I'm not really a Grinch, I just think the holidays are banal. I'm not a Christian, and even if I were, I would know that Jesus was born in either the spring or fall based on the extant stories. And then there's the crass commercialism and greed. It's enough to make a man say, in his best Charlie Brown voice, "Aaarrggh!"

But, really, the thing that bothers me most is how people assume that if I don't plan to do anything for Christmas I must be depressed or lonely or whatever. It's not Christmas that I hate, it's the pervasive sense that if I don't participate in the chaos something is wrong with me -- it's just assumed that everyone wants to do Christmas stuff.

Friends and clients invite me to do things with their families, which is very kind and feels to me to be what the season should be about -- kindness and inclusion. But that isn't what I want. All I want is a day off from work, a good book, some hot coffee, and maybe a football game or two.

So am I Grinch for feeling this way?

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