For a moment, just think of this...It is one of those random ordinary days, the birds are chirping sitting in the trees and the fan is whirring away merrily inside the room. You are going through your daily work the same you did yesterday and the day before. Suddenly, there comes a big package nicey wrapped and full of surprises in front of you.
You are bewildered, you are dumbfounded. How did the gift package make its way to you? Is it intended for you or does it belong to someone else? There is nobody around to unravel the mystery. You look around to spot someone and realise that yes, the gift is meant for you. You feel a little curious, a little elated and your heart starts pounding because you want to find out the contents of the gift box.
You cut the ribbon and open the box with nimble fingers. While you had been expecting to get just one gift, there were more than a dozen packed nicely inside the box. Now comes your time to feel dazed. How can someone do this, it is simply fantastic! The sender of the gift sure must have put his heart and soul into arranging the gifts and packing them together.
You start unwrapping the gifts one by one. Each gift brings a smile on your face, sets your heart aflutter. You feel on top of the world to know that someone cares so much that he spent days together hunting down things that you would like. Not even in your wildest dreams you would have thought someone make so much effort just for you. It is unbelievable, it is beyond ordinary. You simply love it.
So far so good! But hey, now that you have got your goodies and are riding the happiness wave sky high, how about letting the sender know how much you liked the gifts. Courtesy demands that you must atleast appreciate his wonderful gesture. You go out thanking people who have actually not done anything for you but fail to thank the guy who actually brought a smile on your face.
Now, whatever I have written above is not some imaginary story plot of mine but something that I have seen time and again, so much so that when it comes the time to gift somebody, I actually ask myself is it worth the effort.
The Magnetic Compass, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, the Buddha Bar, the CD's/DVD's, memories etc - all got rusted and wasted. I guess I sometimes do way too much, I should hold back, not indulge so much on people.
I still don't understand why people are like this and so henceforth, I have decided that come what may, I am not going to go out of my way to make somebody's life special. Exceptions will always be there but then, one does feel bad when someone close does this to you.
