How do you plan on spending your festive season?

With the festive season approaching, have you decided on what you will be doing?

Typically, the festive season is a time to spend with friends and family, a break from work or just some alone time, but for some it is a time of loneliness or overtime.

Aside from going on holiday or spending the festive season with friends, visiting gran’s house for Christmas lunch or getting together with the guys for your annual game of poker, there are a number of things you could do to help others.

Why not visit the Animal Anti-Cruelty League and help tend the kennels, or give those animals lodged for the festive season some company?

Another thing you could do is volunteer at your nearest church or safe haven, or simply visit an old age home and listen to someone’s forgotten loved ones ramble on – it would make all the difference to them.

So, remember this festive season, instead of it being all about me, me, me – how about making an effort to make someone else’s day or week? Go out, buy something small, gift a stranger, and watch their face light up.

Buy that homeless guy on the corner a burger, sit down with him and listen to his story, or help an old lady carry her shopping to her car.

The festive season isn’t all about presents and fun; make it something more – make it something worthwhile for someone else.