I love everything about the holidays: the decorations the parties and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
No one really wants to admit they are lonely and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
Some say that Jesus is the rock or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
By viewing our relationships with friends family and co-workers as mirrors as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.
At Thanksgiving I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends family and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.
You can live in the world and have friends family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment as life is every moment.
If you are not bored by life and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends family around you it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.
You can just stay in oblivion going through your days and your life and your experiences staying with your friends family. If that suits you it's good. But for some people it's not enough.