Easter is a family holiday�it is also the holiday of love in the middle of Spring when nature blooms and the birds are singing!
As a love holiday therefore, Easter should be seen as a high risk period for incidents of depression, mainly in cases where the only people whom you can kiss at the Anastasi, are your mother, your father or your brother and sisters! If at the same time you are a Single woman over thirty�then things can become quite nasty. Following are some directions to help you overcome Easter depression:
1. Convince at least one more member of your family that the trip he/she planned for the last couple of months will give them nothing more than just hard time! If this does not work then cry your heart out, beg, threaten, bribe�do anything you have to do in order to call off this trip!
2. If despite all this no one from your family is touched by your begging move to plan B. Create the necessary negative climate within your friends (couples). Chances are they will fight with one another the planned trip of your friends (the couples) will be called off and you will spend Easter with your friends!
3. Pray! Pray has not ever hurt anyone�anyway it may also result in something positive!
4. Take a sleeping pill on Thursday and wake up on Monday. Remember�sleep is good for your health and your skin!
5. Use the well known method of �I will come with your guys! I am sure you won�t mind!�. First of all ask all friends and acquaintances about their Easter plans. Pick the best one and invite yourself! The basic element for the successful of this method is the element of surprise! Wait the latest up to the last two days and then�attack! Not to mention that before you attack you have arranged for tickets and hotels in order to avoid any complications! If you have planned everything properly nothing can stop you!
6. If nothing of the above works don�t worry�.it is only Easter!
Some years ago I was volunteering at a Thessaloniki hospital in the child-oncologist department. That Easter all my friends and my family had planned to leave from Thessaloniki, but me. A friend of mine suggested that we go and celebrate the Anastash at the hospital with the children and their parents. It sounded weird�but I went. The moment I saw the children with the drips on their hands and their colorful lambades, I knew that nothing was more natural than what I experienced right at that moment.
I stood by a little girl. She held my hand�and when the priest chanted �Xristos Anesti�, the little girl pulled me down and gave me a kiss�
The little girl is not with us anymore but I every year when I hear the �Xristos Anesti�, I can feel her hand into mine and her kiss on my cheek�
Have a Great and Happy Easter!
Katerina Kourtessi
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