The Worst Part of Living Alone in Albania 🇦🇱

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @sadievoorn5861
    @sadievoorn5861 6 днів тому +6

    Beautiful how open and honest you are. This will be my first Christmas in Albania, and my first one ever in another country. I haven’t celebrated with family for years, it’s just me and my kids and they are here with me. I hope you still manage to find some joy and warmth this holiday season-you’re not alone in feeling this way.

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +2

      it seems like the holidays really hit different when kids are around! i love watching my nieces and nephews on christmas morning.

  • @JH-me
    @JH-me 13 годин тому

    Ah James it’s just a few over hyped days .. Spring is just around the corner 🌼🌷

  • @tonyz9384
    @tonyz9384 5 днів тому +1

    Happy Holidays James. May that plan be a joyful one for you and your loved ones. GOD BLESS!

  • @annas.5794
    @annas.5794 5 днів тому +5

    Orthodox and Catholics do celebrate Christmas in Albania in the region you are. Many churches also. Hope you can visit one and see how they do it. They would love to have you join them if you choose. Merry Christmas!

  • @MrBUNNYBASS
    @MrBUNNYBASS 6 днів тому +3

    Merry Christmas and happy holidays James!
    I know very well the feeling you have in those moments. And I tell you, even sometimes with the family the holidays in Albania seem as if they don't exist.
    At least according to my experience of the years 2013-2017 that I lived in Albania, that's the feeling I got, those days seemed to me as if they were like any other day.

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +1

      yeah i can understand that. which is why i want to focus even more on trying to make them special for myself!

  • @irdibasha391
    @irdibasha391 6 днів тому +6

    Keep your head up king

  • @sixakids
    @sixakids 6 днів тому

    Wish we were there! Merry Christmas, James. Sending our love to you!

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому

      Thanks! Merry Christmas to you as well.

  • @PranveraXhelilaj-p7p
    @PranveraXhelilaj-p7p 6 днів тому +11

    Hi James One thing I don’t understand why don’t you find a nice Albania lady than you can share the life with. They are beautiful and very family oriented. I wish you luck

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +5

      Thanks for the advice, but I'm not looking for a relationship right now.

    • @Atdhetar
      @Atdhetar 5 днів тому +1

      Family oriented? 😂

    • @ridik-nl8jm
      @ridik-nl8jm 5 днів тому

      ​@@AtdhetarI mean they are, but that relationships don't work like that.

    • @Atdhetar
      @Atdhetar 5 днів тому

      @@ridik-nl8jm they "were", now not anymore

    • @ligortreni1660
      @ligortreni1660 5 днів тому

      More like money oriented 🤑

  • @arberia8951
    @arberia8951 5 днів тому +1

    James my dear friend! You haven't made any friends there? I am sure that if you invite anyone you know they would be more than honored to celebrate with you the joy of Christmas. Everyone knows it will not be the same like back home, but it will be definitely better than by yourself. Try to enjoy Albania on behalf of the other Albanians that are not there. :)
    !!!!Marry Christmas James!!!!

  • @laertimeri2575
    @laertimeri2575 6 днів тому

    This video felt painfully honest and I loved every second brother. I know exactly what you mean as I believe that is the reason we call it holiday season, to feel joy and happiness next to our loved ones.

  • @RovialdoKonda
    @RovialdoKonda 6 днів тому

    Merry Christmas James 🎄

  • @marblesyeah
    @marblesyeah 5 днів тому

    Your story telling: *chef's kiss*
    This is my 5th Christmas in Albania and it doesnt get any easier. My roommates are both traveling home to see family. So I'll wake up alone on Christmas day which will feel strange. But you have set a good model for making the best of it by decorating and eating Tonys pancakes🔥 i feel encouraged to the same

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  5 днів тому

      It definitely takes getting used to, but you'll get through it!

  • @ArielHoti
    @ArielHoti 6 днів тому

    Keep your head up. And marry Christmas

  • @nuhii
    @nuhii 6 днів тому

    Merry Christmas James

  • @Sketchbook999
    @Sketchbook999 4 дні тому

    We are all in different stages in our lives. Sometimes its better to not be in a relationship to KNOW oneself.

  • @marafarnham595
    @marafarnham595 6 днів тому

    😊🎄🎁❄☃️🎅beautiful! Hugs to you James 🤗🙏❤

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏

    • @marafarnham595
      @marafarnham595 6 днів тому

      @JamesLeithart Merry Christmas James 🎅 🎄 ❤️ Happy New Year 🎉

  • @dorinabicaku9855
    @dorinabicaku9855 4 дні тому

    Who leaves u alone 4 the God sake u are a beautiful guy in and out educated and don't worry good things come when God wants not what we plan we have nothing in our hands ❤

  • @tupisamba211
    @tupisamba211 6 днів тому +1

    Same. Same. I even made a list of the last several Xmas/NYE that I've ended up spending alone and I think it was like 75% alone. I'm used to it now but I'm also a completely different person when there's actually something social to do. Somehow I retain both versions of me. Last year, here in Tirana, both days were spent at home on my own. NYE doesn't bother me at all but Xmas is a bit sad.

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому

      I think if you create your own little traditions to do with yourself it’s easier to make it through!

    • @ridik-nl8jm
      @ridik-nl8jm 5 днів тому

      There is no reason to spend it alone in Tirana. Plenty of nice people to spent it with.

  • @Georgeshetuni
    @Georgeshetuni 4 дні тому

    I also have had to live alone sometimes during the holidays. No matter where you are, living alone has a downside. Abroad might be harder than at home.

  • @a.m6539
    @a.m6539 5 днів тому

    Would love to have you over for our church celebration!!

  • @maldingarxenaj2883
    @maldingarxenaj2883 5 днів тому

    Life is like a 🌊 you get to be high and low , better days will come

  • @karilang9377
    @karilang9377 6 днів тому

    A good one. I know that feeling. Unfortunately.

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +1

      i’m sorry for you. it’s not fun.

  • @albusha5150
    @albusha5150 6 днів тому

    Another heart touching video. Yes, Christmas in Albania unfortunately is not the same as here in the States because of communist past that Christmas were prohibited. People suffered executions or long prison terms because they dared to celebrate. In the town of Korca at the time of Easter people were imprisoned because teachers asked their kids in school what did they have in their families for dinner and they answered colored eggs. But New Year celebration is quite celebrated in Albania.

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  6 днів тому +3

      I’ve noticed. And it’s somehow combined into the same thing just on a different day New Years tree instead of christmas tree, or new years gifts rather than christmas gifts.

  • @patrickoverseas
    @patrickoverseas 5 днів тому

    Happy holidays buddy. If we bump into each other here in Pogradec Maybe we can step out for a beer. If you see me and my wife walking around, please say hi. We will do the same.

  • @garnettleithart6713
    @garnettleithart6713 6 днів тому

    I'd be lying frfr if I said I didn't get a little teary watching this

  • @karilang9377
    @karilang9377 6 днів тому

    Now will look your video

  • @thepuci7380
    @thepuci7380 6 днів тому

    How come after living for 3 years in Albania, you live alone? Is it your choice or other reason? 😊

  • @liriouri
    @liriouri 4 дні тому

    Winter depression

  • @occasionalwind
    @occasionalwind 6 днів тому +1

    Majority of the Albanians (including myself) we do not celebrate Christmas which is too religious & too primitive! What we celebrate & jump with joy & excitement is the New Year (December 31 & the vee hours of January st.) Yes - there is a Christmas tree (which we call New Year Tree) in the middle of the room, with all that 'Christmas' lights & with dangling strands of sparkling lametta in a different colors - silver was always my favorite - but all that glitter is in the name of exchanging of the years (like this year is the expiration of 2024 & arrival of 2025) with hopes that the new year will be the better year than the old year & in midnight we wish upon a star that all our dreams that we dream of will come true & materialize (hopefully) in the next 12 months. Happy New Year ... James!

    • @pellesvansl
      @pellesvansl 6 днів тому

      yes, majority of Albanians are Muslims

    • @arberia8951
      @arberia8951 5 днів тому

      Hmmmm...actually The 31st of December is more primitive than Christmas Day (Dec 25th). 31 December was a pagan festivity, the Church kept it and adapted it to 25 December.

  • @karilang9377
    @karilang9377 6 днів тому

    😮