The Changing Face of Gifts
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When I was a child my favoured gift would have been….toys
When I was a teenager my favoured gift would have been….clothes/shoes/make up etc
When I was in my 20s my favoured gift would have been…jewellry/perfume/handbags
When I was in my early 30s my favoured gift would have been…a boyfriend/husband/anyone to stop the voices in my head
Now I’m in my late 30s my favoured gift is such a surprise to me. I’dnot stopped to consider this until it hit me between the eyes yesterday, whilst not thinking about gifts as all actually. Had I been thinking about it, I would have expected my current favoured gift to be time alone, more sleep, more time with MrSpud etc etc.
It turns out that my favoured gift these days is ‘light’. As in light from the sky. I was driving to nursery to collect the boys yesterday afternoon and I realised how light it was compared with the pitch black of only a few weeks earlier. And suddenly I was beaming and light hearted (excuse pun) at the joy that the longer days bring. Even better….it gets lighter every day now for another 4 months with a bonus light boost when the clocks go forward and we settle in to the splendidly named British Summer Time.
As Younger Person I was so blind to the passing of the seasons, the ritual of the year rolling by and the way that light ebbs and flows and its effect on me. But now, as a Slightly But Not Very Older Person, it suddenly means so much that I’ll happily give up the toys, clothes, shoes, make up, jewellry, handbags, boyfriends/husbands etc etc…for just a little bit of extra light in the day.
I’m such a cheap date these days.
[Unless MrSpud is reading in which case I still need diamonds as a pushing present[s] for those Megaboys I ‘popped’ out. I know I said that the new camera would cancel out the diamond debt but I was lying. What can I say? I’m just fickle like that….love from your wife xx]
Ah yes, the simple things are always the very best. This reminds me of a song I used to sing to darling daughter when she was a toddler, “You are my sunshine”… think megaboys would enjoy it too! It’s a very good swing pusher song.
my mum always asks me what i want for a gift (birthday, anniversaries, etc). when i was younger, i always had a ready answer. i always knew exactly what i wanted. i think i still do know what i want. but the things i want are not gift wrappable things. is that what growing up is about?
Notice a lot of talk about the sun, wanting to feel the sunshine again, beach talk and other loveliness of summer. It is a good thing that the spring month is just around the corner.