Is the COVID Lockdown Affecting Your Happiness?

This is why gratitude will give you much joy this Christmas season.

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The word change characterizes this particular year 2020. Despite the massive changes, at least two things are sure:

• Our recent Thanksgiving festivities did not resemble what we have known so far.
• This Christmas will be different too.

How did you celebrate Thanksgiving? With your loved ones? Alone? Not at all? Do you still have anything to be grateful for?

You now have two choices to make.

1. You focus on what you have missed out on and perhaps on what you still will this year.
2. You embrace the change, looking forward to new things — potentially better things — you will experience this Christmas.

Changes are never easy. That’s why we tend to resist change.

You may not be able to see your entire family. You may not even know whether you will have the possibility to travel to your hometown or not. The government may discourage or limit interstate traveling. If you live abroad, you may already be looking for a plan B as traveling is not possible or too complicated.