'It is the ideal holiday to spend gathering yourself before the whirlwind of boozy social events that come right before being shoved into an entirely new year.'
Photo: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Before I defend skipping Thanksgiving, I should say that I really love the holidays. Even the parts that have been up for debate, like Love Actually and pumpkin spice; I even welcome Melania Trump’s haunted Christmas decorations. And when I started spending Thanksgiving alone it was out of necessity, not choice, and at first I felt very sad about it.
It’s no wonder people react with horror, concern, pity, and variations of those things when you tell them you’re alone for Thanksgiving. Often you — the orphan, the recently single, the grief-stricken — are then invited to a Friendsgiving in another borough, or in a worst-case scenario to another family’s Thanksgiving dinner.
Part of your hesitation may be internal; a sense of restlessness that makes the prospect of a holiday alone downright terrifying. As Ephrat Livni wrote of the staycation, time spent alone can be scary: “After all, one reason we keep busy is to avoid ourselves, the secret fear that without our work or rigid schedules we are nothing, empty vessels, floating adrift on an ocean of nothingness.” I was afraid of that nothingness.
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