I have realized pretty recently that I am a terrible at choosing gifts for people. For a long time I prided myself on giving very personal gifts… Gifts that the recipient would love to receive but would not expect so I thought of gifting Fidget Rings for Anxiety. Then in the few attempts i have made towards ‘personal’ gifts I have done a good job… hmmm “Zero” times!

My latest attempt was a few weeks ago and I heroically decided to gift a good friend of mine… Hold your breadth… “Words”… yeah, thats right. It was something I had written about that person a long time back, and figured that since the words were very carefully chosen they would love it, (not to mention also read by that person without knowing at that time whome it was actually about). Anyway the person told me that they loved it but it didnt feel like a good gift ‘after’ I gave it…

I have this amazing ability to give the right gift to the wrong person as well. I have given a gift to person A when person B would have loved it a million times more. Its only when you mention B what you gave A that the expression on B’s face would have told you, ‘that gift has the wrong address on it.’

Giving gifts has become so much of a nightmare lately that I have slowly begun to feel that just chipping in for a gift is a much better idea rather than making that effort to go get something :(

Ironically I have loved every gift I have ever got, maybe its got to do more with me just loving surprises. Hell even when I know I am getting something I can get really excited if I did not have an idea before hand what I was getting. This is one of the reasons I dont like telling people what I like to get… Of course a keen eye can easily figure out the things I fancy :P

So what is all this talk about gifts. Yeah its got to do with my birthday. I totally loved the gift I got but its not regarding that. Over the past week a friend of mine was pestering me to know what I wanted as a gift. She wanted a list of things I wanted so that she could pick one and get me. Considering I like surprises I wasnt too excited with the offer…

Anyway looks like I have already had my fair share of surprises this year so I ain’t exactly complaining about anything :)