Enjoying Life Day

Today I'd like to wish all my readers a merry Christmas and happy holiday season - especially if it's perhaps not the happiest time for you personally, for example because your life doesn't conform to the traditional requirements of what a happy Christmas tableau should look like, such as if you have to work over the holidays or don't have a good relationship with your relatives.

I've been thinking about that recently, and for me at least, Christmas is probably the holiday that has "degraded" the most since I was a little kid. I'm honestly a bit envious of adults who still get genuinely excited about it. When I was a child, I couldn't wait to open the next door of my advent calendar every day in December, and Christmas Eve always felt pretty magical when we were finally allowed into the bedroom to see all the presents lined up. However, as an adult it just feels like I care less and less every year. Mr Commando and I mostly agreed to not bother with buying presents for each other as it just stresses us out, and on past occasions when I bought myself an advent calendar "for fun" I usually forgot to open the door most days since I'm just too busy with other things. It's a bit sad, honestly.

With that said, I've been surprised by just how much I've been enjoying Life Day in SWTOR. There isn't that much to it, but in a way that's what I love about it (and I have talked positively about that in the past). While real life is filled with all these expectations about cards, presents and family visits, Life Day is just wonderfully chill.

There's nothing quite like hanging out in front of the Senate Tower or on the Nar Shaddaa Promenade and pelting things with snowballs. If you feel like getting more involved, you can run around and try to tag all the different gift droid spawns, or look for a flash mob assembling around an overheated one, but if you're feeling lazy, just staying in the same area and throwing snowballs at random NPCs and passers-by works as well. It's a great way to pass the time while waiting in queues, especially if you don't expect the wait time to be too long and/or you don't feel like going out and doing something more involved in the meantime (such as dailies for example).

If only the real-life holiday could be equally as relaxing to me... anyway, my point is that I appreciate that it's there. I'll definitely try to make the most of it while it lasts.