Don't look a gift horse in the mouth?

[inside the sun]

i believe this is the same subject:

I think we, at least myself, and family members, my dad and grandpa..have a problem with taking things too personally, which leads to why anything, especially gift giving can get personal, obviously it is.

Maybe i lack a showing of thanks, i say thank you countless times, and i am thankful, i just think it is my way of showing thanks that is alien.

I am not one to jump up and down and get super excited, i am too old at heart/mind, where i feel embarassed to let go like that. I smile, and say thankyou, maybe raise my voice, but that is all.

Plus my way of showing thanks is by using a gift to its fullest, and sometimes abusing it. I wear out my clothes, and wear down my shoes, my ipods screen got missed up a month or two after i got it. My ex gf gave me a jacket that i stained within the first week, a big noticable stain. I lose clothing. My guitars have scratches, and poetry written on them. You see the only way for me to keep something in mint condition is to not use it, or rarely do so, and to me that is the opposite of the reason you give a gift,

its purpose is this, you are giving someone something you feel they need more than you do or would appreciate it more. :)