I have this issue about gifts-I'm not really fond of actually handing them over but I truly love the thrill of looking for that one gift that really fits the receiver. I know I'm not perfect(but I'm so damn close that it scares me:P) and I sometimes screw up and don't actually find something that it is going to be liked or needed as a matter of fact, but I do my best. I have all my friends' birthday dates noted in my addenda, I have reminders about all occasions requiring the purchase of gifts/cards and I always plan my shopping with at least two weeks before the anniversary/birthday/holiday when I know exactly what to buy and where I would find that particular item and a whole month if I don't know where to buy it from. Don't get me wrong, I don't really need two weeks just to buy it and most of the times, the gift stays in a closet of mine for like a week and a half. But I just want to be sure that if something should occur, I will still have enough time for my purchase and that the item wouldn't go out of stock.Oh, and one more thing, I always pay great attention to my friend likes and dislikes. Maybe the present won’t be ideal, since I sometimes tend to be subjective but if I’ll hear someone saying he doesn’t have as many shirts as he’d like to, I’ll obviously go and buy him one on the proximate occasion. And new ideas come to me all the time and I always take notes in my head of the suitable gifts for everyone. The problem is that what goes around doesn’t necessarily come around and hence, those for whom I try to do all these nice things don’t do the same for me. They hardly ever pay attention to what I’d like to have even though sometimes I literally tell them what I’d like to receive for my birthday; they wait until the last moment to actually purchase any gift for me and therefore, they sometimes end up not buying it at all; they don’t always send me cards; they rarely answer my text messages and so on….Let’s take the next situation for example. I know Y. I know for a fact Y loves ties since he made a habit out of stating that with every possible occasion. Naturally, for Y’s eighteen birthday I got him a tie on his favorite color (pretty expensive too). On my eighteen birthday, Y asks Someone what should he get me. Someone asks me what Y should get me. I tell Someone I’d like a certain book (easy to find and not at all expensive). And obviously Y gets me a (very!!!) cheap cd that I don’t even usually listen to.
I won’t claim I haven’t received nice presents too, but still, I just wished I was at least someone's princess…nevermind!
