Hello, hello, my friends. Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas. Ah, what's that lovely old song?

Children, roasting on an open fire. Anyway, I hope you're having a lovely day. And, you know, listen,

I'll be straight up with you. I'm sure that there are some of you out there

who are having a tough day and i just wanted to drop in obviously say hi gives you some good

christmas cheer give you a couple of comforts of philosophy and just remind you that

everyone on the planet who who's honest, has had one or more bad Christmases.

And if this is a bad Christmas for you, maybe you're alienated from people, maybe you're

alone, maybe you had a recent breakup, maybe you're unemployed, maybe you're stressed,

maybe you don't have enough money for the holidays. And I just wanted to sort of reach out,

give you a big virtual hug, wish that we were all there together with good food and good

cheer and good stories, and just remind you that you're not alone in being alone

and I thought I might share a couple of stories of a few bad Christmases that I've had over the

years. Just remind you that although things are tough. Oh, life, life, life. What is that?

This is an old story. It's an old story about a ring. A magic ring. A magic ring has the

incredible power to make you happy when you're sad and sad when you're happy. And nobody can figure out

how the ring is able to do this until at some point somebody looks on the inside of the ring,

and inside is inscribed the phrase, this too shall pass.

So if you are having a solitary Christmas,

if you are having a lonely Christmas,

if you are having a broke Christmas,

if you're far from home,

if you're far from friends,

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