The value of gifts — Paradox # 2

The value of gifts (irre­spec­tive of whether you bought them at a store or not) is not intrin­sic to the gift itself. It relates more to how you came up with the gift, and how the recip­i­ent per­ceives the gift.

Give away too lit­tle, too rarely, or too cheaply, and your gifts may be mis­in­ter­preted as some­thing else than an act of Kind­ness by the per­son that receives it.

Give away too much, too often, or too costly, and the gift will likely be inter­preted as ‘low in value’ by the per­son receiv­ing it.

Giv­ing and receiv­ing is an equa­tion that needs some bal­ance; It’s what gives gifts the value they deserve. Yet some­one, some­time, some­how, needs to start by giv­ing away some­thing that he val­ues if the cycle is to begin.

Giv­ing and Receiv­ing: A cycle where the only way to bal­ance it is to “throw the bal­ance our of whack” by tak­ing the first step and give away too much, too often, or some­thing that you’ll miss.
Then the cycle will begin.

Or maybe not.

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