The quality of gift you give to yourself is more of the quality people give to you. In other words, people treat you exactly the way you treat yourself. When right thinking persons want to buy you a gift that you will appreciate, they observe you closely and juggle their memory of you to connect with the things you like. It is something around that they get you.
Sometimes too, they remember conversations they have had with you in the past and know the things you confess to like but perhaps not be able to get for yourself at the time in question.
Some other persons observe you closely and find out what you lack, and they try to make that a gift for you. People who have issues with how they smell can attract gifts of scents from people. They try to make specific statements when they do that. You may not be paying attention.
The stupendously wealthy sometimes hardly get gifts from people who surround them because the majority think and know that they have and have no need of anything. Is this thinking warped? Sometimes, when they get gifts, it is often because they seek to curry favour.
Another thing with the rich and powerful is that many people who surround them find it hard to tell them the truth. They usually tell them what they like to hear. Unless the rich find a way to get the truth about things themselves, they may have a hard time knowing what is really happening around them because they are often surrounded by sycophants who always strive to please them. Usually, they buy intelligence in cash or kind.
With the wealthy, it is good if they develop and use the gift of perceptiveness, intuition, and observation, calmly paying attention to what is spoken so as to perceive and glean what is not spoken. Essentially, every sincere mind, rich or poor, should be this way.
Sometimes too, because of the need to earn patronage whether in business or politics, people give gifts to people. The motive is often clear--to influence decisions, to seek favour or both. Judgements can be perverted this way and it is what it is.
We often expect reciprocity from others because we feel they should be to us what we are to them or vice versa. This mindset is not healthy because nature is really not patterned that way.
Besides gratitude what else do we give for the sun, rain, wind, and other elements of life that we receive? Although people tend to vacillate towards the hands that fed them but in the same way, people bite the finger that fed them. This treacherous nature is found among humans.
