As we slide down the slope towards the christmas holidays, I am feeling the presence of my anosmia* more and more. (*complete lack of a sense of smell.)

It’s been about a decade since it entered my life, you’d think I would have got used to it. But too many of our christmas rituals are associated with smells.

And at this distance I can’t remember what the smells I’m missing actually smelled like, which is another layer of absence.

#anosmia #sucks #feelingsorryformyself