Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
Each day provides its own gifts.
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
Gifts make slaves.