Going All-in on Holidays and Seasons

As many people have already seen, I started embracing fall in August.

I’ve been ordering pumpkin spice lattes, updating my fall wardrobe (I am wearing a pair of leggings with pumpkins on them as I write this) and filling my apartment with fall decorations.

I even have my Halloween costume added to an Amazon soon to be purchased – though I can’t do my favorite bar crawl this year.

I know what you are thinking: “Ugh, why do people have to rush summer? Why can’t you just enjoy the season that we are in?”

For me, it’s because:

It’s a great distraction from all of the grief, and a new form of self-care.
It’s a representation of kicking summer out, since it was the worst one of my life.
It helps me feel like I’m taking back control of things, which helps me feel as happy as I am capable of feeling. (Genuine happy moments are few and far between these days.)
It will help me get in the spirit of the upcoming holidays, so I can embrace them even though they’re going to look so much different this year. (Side note, I also started my holiday shopping…)

For these reasons, I have decided that for the rest of the year, I’m going all-in on holidays and seasons. 2020 has taken so much away from me already, and it won’t take anything else.