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The rest of you not so easily offended, keep in mind these blogs are MY opinion, not yours so you don't have to agree. While finishing up the Christmas shopping with the wife today we were discussing how some people give liquor to people as gifts. I suppose if you know the person really well you might know if that person had an addiction problem. However I have known people in my life who functioned very well as alcoholics, even better than some who were not addicted to any vice at all in fact. But I reflect back on how I had given them little bottles of whiskey or something similarly toxic and wonder if perhaps I had contributed to the state they are in now. It was a completely harmless gift I thought, or was it?
I guess I'll never know how my gift of booze affected my friends, but I think I will refrain from giving addiction based materials in the future gifts to those who I feel so inclined to give a gift too.
And what's up with the whole Secret Santa thing anyhow? I hate the pressure we all endure during Christmas to begin with. Why do we give gifts to people just because we feel it is necessary to, or because we were put into some raffle? I can literally smell a mile and a half away when someone gave a gift out of obligation and not from the heart. I won't mention anyone's names, I'm not spiteful but I just wish people would avoid giving me gifts if they really don't give a damn about me...
I reflect now on a truly heartfelt gift I received when I turned 30. At my 30th birthday party the girlfriend of a close friend and coworker gave me a simple yet heartfelt gift. It was an English fedora with a quail feather in it and some fishing hooks. It was a gift that at the time reflected a really great fishing trip we had all taken that year and I never forgot it.
I miss them dearly, grew farther and farther apart... well 4000km's or so at minimum... :(
I hope they are doing well but I've lost contact with them...
I guess I'll never know how my gift of booze affected my friends, but I think I will refrain from giving addiction based materials in the future gifts to those who I feel so inclined to give a gift too.
And what's up with the whole Secret Santa thing anyhow? I hate the pressure we all endure during Christmas to begin with. Why do we give gifts to people just because we feel it is necessary to, or because we were put into some raffle? I can literally smell a mile and a half away when someone gave a gift out of obligation and not from the heart. I won't mention anyone's names, I'm not spiteful but I just wish people would avoid giving me gifts if they really don't give a damn about me...
I reflect now on a truly heartfelt gift I received when I turned 30. At my 30th birthday party the girlfriend of a close friend and coworker gave me a simple yet heartfelt gift. It was an English fedora with a quail feather in it and some fishing hooks. It was a gift that at the time reflected a really great fishing trip we had all taken that year and I never forgot it.
I miss them dearly, grew farther and farther apart... well 4000km's or so at minimum... :(
I hope they are doing well but I've lost contact with them...
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