Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Be honest now: do you prefer giving gifts or receiving them?
I confess, I tend to enjoy receiving them more, unless I can find “the perfect gift” – something that I know the recipient will love. That is a thrill from the moment I think of it, through the moment I track it down, until the recipient finally opens it.
It does not happen as often as I’d like. Perhaps this implies that some of my friends and family (you know who you are…) are harder to shop for than I am?
They say Da Vinci had the same 24 hours a day that we have. The question, then, is what do I want more of in my life (what do you want more of in yours?) and what needs to go to make room for that?
Or have you ever been? A personal question, to be sure, but it is possible to be addicted to substances that are legal, even socially acceptable.
I myself was once addicted to what William Cowper called “the cups that cheer, but not inebriate,” i.e. tea.
And you? (Fear not: the Internet will provide you with a thin veneer of anonymity.)