It is the Festive season, it can be on a scorching hot summer beach or in ice cold winter snow.
There is something about the uproot8 tree and Christmas that is a mix of emotions ,happiness, gratefulness but also grief, loneliness and regret.
If its your first festive season as an Uproot8 tree you might feel relieved, grateful and happy to be around the NEW. If you have hit Season 3 to season 5 you might miss your family and friends living in your country of origin so deeply, you mourn for them, you see the nieces and nephews growing up, your siblings changing and your Parents aging. You and your Family are no longer part of there Family Photos, and they are no longer a part of yours, your kids don’t have the privilege of sleepovers by cousins and aunties, grandma and grandpa hugs and kisses anymore, your family group might be small and feel isolated at times, few friends may join you now for Christmas lunch or dinner ,for they to long for home.
For others they might have a part of the family around them, a brother, sister, aunty ,uncle, parents or some long lost cousin, they spend there days waiting to meet each other and gather around the Christmas tree together in this foreign soil, like all Uproot8 Trees, young and old, we go through the Festive season a bit differently each year.
If you are a well established uproot8 tree and you find yourself in season 6 onwards you might feel blessed, content and at ease with your new traditions, ways to celebrate Christmas differently, you might be still a first generation Uproot8 tree but you have peace, your kids have grown into adults or teens and call the foreign soil home, you might even have a new addition to the family or in laws by now, you have deep roots in the foreign soil you are comfortable, and content around the Christmas tree, you still mis love ones dearly from time to time but you have accepted that you will live separate lives from each other.
From us at Uproot8 to you…….
Thank you all for supporting our page and we wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed new year.
We will be taking a little break for the holidays.
But before all the festivities I would like to remind each person that grief peaks around these special occasions.
Sit with the feelings, feel it, learn from it and celebrate it, don’t forget to celebrate the love, the joy and the peace.
We feel loss deeply for we loved deeply.
