A poem or a dress?
I see a little girl running to her mother.
She hands her a torn page of a diary, scribbled messily with the words 'I love you' with the stick figures of herself and her beloved mother.
Overwhelmed with the gesture, the mother tells her little one, its the best gift she can ever have.
She hands her a torn page of a diary, scribbled messily with the words 'I love you' with the stick figures of herself and her beloved mother.
Overwhelmed with the gesture, the mother tells her little one, its the best gift she can ever have.
Be it hand-made cards, home-made food or a song written for your loved ones, the feeling is any-day much greater than the glittering card or the fancy dress of the shop.
When we were children, we never realized the monetary value Instead, we would gather whatever resources we have and make something meaningful for us, hoping it would make the other one happy.
When did we exchange that thought with the expensive gifts that society has made us to believe?
If you type the words 'gifts-to-buy', a huge rows of gifts will be dancing in front of your eyes in a matter of seconds.
Events like father's day or daughter's day has now made us believe that the day is incomplete without some gift of monetary value.
One wish is not enough, for it is forgotten.
Hence, we need something as a showpiece or a trophy.
Is the leather shoe more valuable than the poem your close one has made for you?
Why is the sweater knitted by your grandmother lying crumpled while you choose the one with the great 'label.'
When we were children, we never realized the monetary value Instead, we would gather whatever resources we have and make something meaningful for us, hoping it would make the other one happy.
When did we exchange that thought with the expensive gifts that society has made us to believe?
If you type the words 'gifts-to-buy', a huge rows of gifts will be dancing in front of your eyes in a matter of seconds.
Events like father's day or daughter's day has now made us believe that the day is incomplete without some gift of monetary value.
One wish is not enough, for it is forgotten.
Hence, we need something as a showpiece or a trophy.
Is the leather shoe more valuable than the poem your close one has made for you?
Why is the sweater knitted by your grandmother lying crumpled while you choose the one with the great 'label.'
So money does put the tag on happiness?
I am not saying that the ones who splurge are being snotty, but does that mean you will devalue the hand-made gift?
How can your eyes lose the sparkle when your birthday gift turns out to be a one's own customized photo frame?
Its not for everyone though, some days back while I was travelling via metro, I saw a girl happily chatting about the 4-page letter given to her by her lover, who lives 6,000 miles away from her.
It is incredible to see such rare instances when two hearts are connected by emotion and not by the green note.
The value of love maybe now is weighed by the more expensive gift one gets.
Isn't it all about the effort, irrespective of the number of presents you get, or the size and volume of it?
The more we get modernized, desires of possessing things of monetary value will increase.
Affection can be bought physically- has that day arrived already?
The little joys of life are changing.
We are changing.
We are changing.
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