This Christmas I am reflecting on the fact of taking care of my family from the Christmas excesses, for no one is a secret that Christmas is a synonym of consumerism and excesses, but the reality is that there is no money to make the tradition what it commonly is.
The most remarkable thing for this Christmas compared to the past is that we will continue to use this date of the year to remember and long for what we do not have, the episode of the covid-19 took the lives of many loved ones, so I see very difficult not to remember them especially when it is no longer the year 2022 and enter the welcome of the year 2023. However, even though it is something remarkable, it is another aspect to take care of, since most of my family is elderly, so we must manage very well the emotions that alter the normality of their health.
I thank God that even though Christmas is a festive season of excesses, no one in my family exaggerates in the excessive consumption of alcohol and food, which ultimately add to the statistics of the end of the year as the time when more people die of heart attacks due to high consumption of alcohol and food.
For other families who may go through the excess of these celebrations, I only give them an advice to try to avoid excessive consumption of alcohol and food, since the most vulnerable in our homes are our relatives who are obese, who have problems with hypertension and diabetes, so it is not convenient to fall into this consumerist trap.
If we consider that our health is worth much more than following the guidelines of any tradition, we will surely be focused and it will be more difficult to fall into the temptation of excessive consumption of alcohol and food that can play a dirty trick on us.
The previous planning is very important, since what we also want is that we can share following the tradition finding the balance in our way of consuming and sharing at Christmas, we can plan the various alternatives to eat a little healthier making the same food with alternative ways in its preparation, the other important thing to plan are the quantities to consume.
Being prepared implies to be prepared in the future to continue celebrating the time of the year that makes us more willing to share with our family.