Many of us have spent a Christmas alone for some reason or another.
Maybe you were living or travelling overseas. Maybe you couldn’t afford flights back home. Maybe you missed your flight back home.
Whatever the reason, you would know how much spending the festive season by yourself sucks – it’s just you, a Christmas Pudding For One, and the Joni Mitchell scene in Love Actually that makes you howl with self-pitying tears every single time.
Yup, there’s not a lot in this world sadder than a Christmas spent alone. (Except for maybe a Christmas spent working in retail – that’s downright terrifying.) But imagine if you were spending Christmas alone because you were in hospital – that would be the worst.
So one Australian company have come up with a pretty awesome way to solve that problem, and we can’t get enough. #happytears.
Medibank have bucked the trend for lame Christmas advertising this year to zoom in on lonely Aussies and figuring out a way to cheer them up this festive season.
And forget colouring-in books or dodgy Santa actors, they are bringing the smiles with a seriously cool solution: virtual reality.
The health insurance giant will be delivering virtual reality headsets to long-stay hospital patients over Christmas to give them a much-needed break from the four walls of their ward, and a bit of fun to put a smile on their faces.
Because like it or lump it, illness marches on whether it's Christmas or not.