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CHRISTMAS 2018/NEW YEARS Chillout Lounge
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This is a safe place where people can post and say hello, chat or send wishes to others and have a 'Virtual Christmas/New Years'!
Whether you have plans for Christmas/New Years or having a quiet one you can kick back and just enjoy company of others. Its been a long year. Even if you have never posted on Beyond Blue before you are very welcome to come in and sit around our 'Virtual Christmas Tree' and chat 🙂
You asked for this Paul here it is for all.
Santa (AKA Kanga Peter) Ho Ho! 🙂
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GG I would love to spend time with friends and family this Christmas. Over the last forty years they have demonstrated to me what I mean to them. It has progressively got worse over the years To the point where I did not even get an invite to the family get together this year. I was put into a Old age care facility full of full on people who would come into my room at 2 and 3 in the morning and start mucking about with my blankets. II went out to a doctors appointment my laptop would go missing. not staff residents. My family know where I am not one has visited in 18 months. If they were in a place like this I would be there at least once a month they wont even answer the phone to me or return a call. Its to hard. So I dont have a family.
Kanga
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Hello Kanga,
im so very sorry about how you are being treated.
This will be my first Christmas alone. A dumb stupid weak mistake on my part has torn my children away from me.
It's really heartbreaking to hear of this happening at any time of the year but for some reason Christmas makes it harder,
i worked in an aged nursing home, I only lasted 6months, my heart is to soft to work there, I was sacked because I cared and talked to much to the residents, After I was sacked I still continued to visit the ones who never had visitors. They had family like yourself but they never came to visit. Very sad.
Like you a lot of people had things go missing, what was found out where I worked, was because the rooms are left open, visitors could go into any room and " help themselves " to different items. Some residents ended up getting a padlock put on the outside of their door to keep people out when they were not there.
Does your nursing home do anything special for Christmas? Do you have like a, well kind of one person there that you talk to.?.
I hate how people can treat each other so cruelly.
Kanga i will be around the forums on Christmas Day, that is if I don't bury myself under the bed covers, I would love to talk to you and keep you company if you want to. you will give me reason to get out of bed.
Kindness only.
GG.
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GG the rules of BB prevent us from giving out personal details like home addresses for every ones protection So if things go sour we are protected from being accused of doing something we didn't. I am really beyond caring for my family, To the point where I would not even ring a hospital to find out how they were now. I just don't care All I care about is my children that's it I don't have siblings. If they wont to play the game I will win. In the long run They will Pay the piper Because when we meetup in hell I will be the one stoking there furnace. That will be my revenge then.Mean time I will look after mine
Kanga
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Hi everyone 😊
Hi Kanga and GGrand and everyone reading and posting!
One thing I feel sad about at Christmas is that I always seem to use my effort and energy worrying about expectations. I expect care from others who I really should just accept I can't make care.
And I get exhausted try make others happy and meet expectations of others who don't appreciate it. Kind of like what Kanga is talking about.
It hurts. But I do this to myself. So I give up. Why spend time on hurt when I can put energy in the right place. Self care. Care for those who reciprocate and give in return.
What do you like to do at Christmas that makes YOU feel good?
I like going swimming. It is stinking hot here usually (yesterday was weird... Poured with rain and was cold!). The beach is even better. I like making sandcastles even before I had kids to make them with me.
What about you? Kanga? GGrand? Any new members are most welcome too.
❤nat
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Hi all,
What makes me feel good about xmas?
Driving around seeing the xmas lights, watching children in awe of Santa and xmas decorations, Watching the older people sit back and watch the kids.
Which is what I'm doing nowadays. I cook the dinner or prepare it (a cold dinner this year) and then watch others, less talking more watching and giving.
Tony WK
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A xmas story
I was 18yo as part of a skeleton staff at a RAAF base in SA in 1974. How would I know that 2 days layer I'd be involved in a rescue operation with the aftermarket of cyclone Tracey in Darwin.
On the Adelaide airstrip we loaded Hercules transport planes with huge generators then my leader told me I was flying on the plane to Darwin.
The trip seemed to last forever. Once landed we pushed the grnerators off then filled plane with defence families and flew back.
A couuple of weeks later I received a commendation from my commanding officer which I cherish.
Anyway 42 years later on our round Oz trip we stopped at Barkley Homestead on the border to NT and Queensland and was in a swimming pool. A man was attempting to enter the pool but had recently had new knees and had difficulties. We got chatting. He'd spent 35 years in the RAAF and when I told him I had spent only 3 years in it he claimed to recognise me.
It turned out when I pushed those generators off the plane on the Darwin RAAF airstrip....he was the guy that was stationed at the airport that helped my do it.
Merry xmas.
Tony WK
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Hi Quercus,
Christmas, when younger my brothers and I received a present, usually a book. I was so happy as we never got anything throughout the year.
Married, my expectations were high, I could make Christmas special, Nope Christmas was non existent with hubby, even when kids came along, hubby stayed in bed all day or went to the beach on his own, no presents were handed to my boys, I used to give them the best time I could with spending the day with them. after Christmas and before school I used to buy them a small gift from shopping money and had to tell them not to let their dad see it.
What do I like to do at Christmas to make me feel good.
I don't have an answer that I know of.
GG.
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Oh gg
that must have been so hard
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hi everyone
its been a while since being here but i come bearing gifts....
ok ive thought about this today. coming here was basically the most helpful thing ive done on my road to recovery. so what i would like to do (and also encourage others to do so) is offer a 'virtual' gift. so....
my gift to all members is unconditional friendship, encouragement and wisdom.
'my friendship is not like rain which comes and goes away, my friendship is like air. sometimes silent but always around you'
as my gift suggests my friendship is unconditional as even when im not online i am still around, when im in the background hiding i may not have anything to say but my support is endless and my friendship is continuous with no strings attached.
the gift of wisdom comes from the serentity prayer- please look it up it is pretty self explanatory yet not easily mastered, but i will share it with you in hopes that itll stick and you may learn from it.
the gift of encouragement that you can get through this crap and will have continuous support from your fellow forum members
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Hi Everyone,
The Blues are hitting me hard at present.
One thing that has cheered me up is to Google "Christmas around the world". For example Christmas in Japan, Russia, Iran, Malaysia (just to name a few) and also "Christmas decorations from Finland, Iceland, China etc.
So many beautiful pictures come up on the screen to inspire me, thrill me and fill me with a sense of wonder.
For a few moments I am in another world. A whole different world is just a click away!
Cheers all from Dools