136 - Giving with Hands Open

(This is a photo of my sister with chocolate-coated Sunflower seeds in her hands.)


I believe that giving should be done with open hands. It's symbolic that when we give, we actually mean to give and not hold back or have any doubts on that decision. Furthermore, to give is not to count it as a future favor that someone would give you, like a counter measure that good deeds would be my score for going to heaven when I die.

As ridiculous as it may sound, there are still a lot of people who give with the intention that the person they are giving something to would give them something in return. It's an anti thesis of the definition of giving.

I'm sure that not a lot of people think like I do. I just hope there are some that do than the bleak possibility that there aren't...which come to think of it, sounds pretty arrogant of me. Gomen gomen.

But honestly speaking. I actually think before I give. I think whether the person really needs what I am to give, whether this would possibly make the other person dependent on other people providing him what he needs instead of actually working hard to achieve it on his own. I think whether I am giving because I want to or being pressured to provide (which is rare).

It sounds like I am over complicating everything. However, some things aren't that simple. Giving is a simple act it's complication is before the decision to give and the aftermath of it.