At the end of the Hanukkah week, participants in our project for the elderly, "Interaction," had the opportunity to chat with a psychologist on the importance of holidays in everyone's life.

We discussed the multifaceted importance of the holiday. The holiday serves as an emotional accumulator, allowing us to overcome difficulties and hardships that we encounter on our life journey. It also serves as an important national symbol, demonstrating belonging to one's country, people, and ethnicity. As a national symbol, it is passed down from father to son and carefully preserved by subsequent generations. Moreover, holidays facilitate the interaction of different cultures.

The holiday helps cope with melancholy and hopelessness, symptoms of the "Sunday neurosis." It motivates and restores the desire to live and be an individual. Often, outside our professional activities, many of us lose motivation, seeing ourselves only as a "teacher," "writer," or "worker." The holiday allows us to express ourselves beyond these roles, bringing joy and pleasure. Therefore, the significance of the holiday cannot be overestimated, and one should never refuse it under any circumstances!

The word "holiday" can be translated from Ukrainian as a "special day," a "day of wonder." During this time, each of us can "return to childhood," becoming a cheerful and open-minded little child to the world. At this moment in our lives, everything can change: you can look at events from a completely different perspective, literally turning your life upside down.

The holiday gives us the strength not only to reconsider what is happening to us but also to start anew!