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Why annual traditions become sources of temporal shame

Every year I say I will send holiday cards early and every year I send them in February with apologies for being late and I wonder why I keep torturing myself with this impossible timeline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Ritual obligations that once marked natural rhythms can become arbitrary deadlines that generate cyclical guilt.

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