How To Stay Humble During The Holidays
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How To Stay Humble During The Holidays

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How To Stay Humble During The Holidays
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It's hard to stay humble during the holidays


I know that everyone is now home from college and ready to start their Christmas break on the right foot. Typically for college kids, Christmas is less about the presents and more about the money. Staying humble during the holidays can be a challenge because sometimes you get spoiled more than others and sometimes you get nothing but the satisfaction of knowing your past Christmases were pretty good. We have a lot to be thankful for, being in college and all.


Getting across that not everyone gets to go home for the holidays is important. Maybe it's a military member overseas or far away, or maybe it's the college student that lives halfway across the country for school, or maybe money is tight and you can't visit family that often. I am lucky enough where I see a lot of my small family every year for the holidays but I know that if I didn't get to see everyone, I would be sad too.


I always try and out do myself every year with the gift giving. My boyfriends family does Christmas very big and my family really doesn't go all out with it, but we make the most of it. Giving gifts is way more satisfying for me than getting them. I could buy myself all the gifts in the world, but that wouldn't give me the satisfaction on the faces of people I love the most.


Stay humble when your friend may get something you always wanted or couldn't afford to get. It is really hard to see someone get spoiled and showered with gifts, but then it really takes the meaning out of Christmas itself. It is not really meant for presents, but if that is the way you celebrate it, that's fine. What is really important is the time spent with the people that you love. Most of you don't get that when you are away from them (even when you like to get away) and then you regret not doing the things that you want to do with them.


The holidays are best spent being humble about what you have and giving thanks for being in the situation that you are in. Sometimes you may not like what you have or maybe you wish you could have more, but stay humble and kind, you never know how much that will mean.

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