Gifts

I still remember the iambic parameters of Macavity Macavity there is no one like Macavity..from my school days Now I say Santa Claus Santa Claus there is no one like Santa Claus. With due reverence to both I am equally fetish to demystify the mystery cat or a Gift cart. Like the mystery of the hidden paw the hunt for a perfect gift never ends and no wonder how the gift turns out to be the truth is even a thought of it cradles your imagination with subtle winds of desires …while we open the gift wrap we all tend to task our intelligence and experience to derive at the expectation using the complex matrix of weight, volume and rattle of the box if possible!

Google reads GIFT as: God is in favor of me today

Sounds absolutely wholesome acronym for the one being blessed with a gift but incidentally the person giving the gift is not as lucky as he is challenged by the aptness of a delightful and yet a meaningful gift. The problem is not in swiping the card at the gift shop but to swipe the brain and time to find a gift which truly elates the recipient like the child hood pocket money or an elderly with a new set of teeth! We meet more often on facebook in today’s era and succumb slowly to the tapping of the keyboard or recycled forward messages on all worthy occasions! We are the most connected lot of mankind in the history but the web of connection is perhaps the weakest. We struggle not to choose a gift but to know the recipient more closely.

Blame it on the onslaught of consumerism or apple-i-zation of this world, in a given social strata everyone has got everything if he has Visa-Master for credit card and some EMIs to keep the bank account slicing every month. Coupled by this we know so many people virtually thru 14’’ screens that we hardly know the configuration of a real life relationship. Past was actually glorious where mind were etched but toady even a digital reminder fails to muster the effort in us for buying a gift for the closest ones. We give extra diligence to planning a gift but seldom attempt to lay the final bridge for action…Macavity Macavity there is no one like Macavity !

Childhood birthdays used to be a jamboree of gifts and that actually conditioned our brains to salivate in imagination the moment we receive or think of a gift. The bonding with the classmates in early school was also cemented by numerous pen sets, birthday cards and unlimited visits to the limited Archies Galleries until gifts grew up with age for a more eventful purpose in youth to woe the girlfriends. And it was a carnival of gifts then, I am sure no man worth his salt will ever try to regret the effort and money- spent, borrowed or buried….Gifts did a lot of talking then!

The other half of the life with your better half requires wealth to gift something as exotic as an island itself or Saif Kareena type paparazzi to stand tall in the crowd at least that is what most of us think . But factually GIFTS are a beautiful creation of mankind to keep the dice rolling in a relationship without having to spend a bomb. The thought multiplied by timely action will always result in a meaningful reaction and here the thought is priceless which we ignore in the chase of a material gift. Even if we cover up our failure on action by a roadside flower bouquet…trust me it will not go waste. The bigger irony is to identify and acknowledge the set of people other than your kids who bear a rightful expectation of being gifted occasionally including your parents where the mystery cat has struck long back….Macavity Macavity there is no one like Macavity !

Corollary of the above situation is that Gifting today is an industry. Corporate Gifts, Business Gifts , Political Gifts , Marriage Gifts , Festival Gifts and coupled by the multitude of uneventful occasions like friendship day or any other marketers’ day we end up receiving gifts only to be forwarded to worthy recipients later. It is not a fact to challenge that we receive more gifts than we actually gift to someone meaningfully and hence keep ourselves straining on the chords of connect which could otherwise be tuned so easily. Now that I have spoken so much I am feeling being hard struck by the mystery cat too….Macavity Macavity there is no one like Macavity

GIFT THEOREM: Invest largely in money markets, spend generously and frequently in relationships….Please start gifting me!