so close but we never meet

i am fed up by all the christmas traditional food i was having these days.
but this is not the point of my post. what i wanna talk about is relatives.

i am sure this is something that happens to many people... when it's christmas, you spend time with persons you meet once a year only, only in such an occasion. in my case, those persons happen to be very close relatives, my mum's and dad's brothers and sisters for example, my cousins, and so so on. and i must thank christmas, because if it was not for it, i would never meet them, even though i love them and even though we live in the same city.

it's weird, isn't it? how busy and lazy we often are... our days and agendas always so filled that we never find time to be with the closest member of our families if not for some recurrence.