Remember when you were a kid and woke up really early to see what presents you had under the tree? The excitement of it all, attacking the wrapping paper like you were on a mission with ferocious intensity to find all the greatest gifts that you toss aside to jump at the next present for?
Now as an adult you get to watch the face of the person you give your gifts to, the light in their eyes, the excitement, the love. Which is the better feeling? some would ask, giving the greatest gift or receiving it?
Well my answer is neither, and both. It is said very often in all the movies and stories about christmas and the christmas spirit but how often do we actually ponder and listen to it? I see that the love behind the gift is the absolute most important part. I have always been the one to "go big or go home" and make or buy the biggest baddest best gift i can find for a person but the last couple of years things have toned down, maybe i have grown up or something. I see that the perfect gift is not something you had to slave over for hours or fight through crowds of insane people to get to but something that simply says "I love you" or "i appreciate you"
The gifts I have kept over the years, the ones I have truly loved and appreciated are not the huge expensive ones but the ones that came with heart, with something that told me that person loves me. I still have cards from my sisters and I have gifts that normally wouldn't mean anything to anyone but because of the thought behind it they mean the world to me.
To me the greatest gifts aren't even the gifts at all but the people that bring that bring them to me.
I love you all, Merry Christmas
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