About a year ago I was going through my stuff, which I love, and I came upon an old digital camera that I had gotten as a gift two years prior. 5 mega pixels and it looked like a real camera not a pocket one. Now I keep everything because certain things mean something special to me.
This was given to me by my wife but I had purchased a smaller camera in the last couple of months so this older camera wasn't being used but just being saved.
I then met a young lady, around 12 years old, who's family wasn't in the best financial state and all she wanted was a camera. Bingo. The light bulb went off in my head. My camera. The one I never used would be perfect.
Even though I thought of hundreds of reasons to keep it I decided to give it to her. So my wife, my dog Jack and I drove an hour and a half to this young lady's house and handed her my beloved camera. I could see in her eyes how happy she was. Her mother asked me why I was giving her daughter something as expensive as a camera and all I could say was that I wasn't using it.
After that day I never heard from her again. Now should I be upset that they never said thank you? My not getting a thanks could have made me wonder how ungrateful these people were but instead I realized that the reason I gave the camera away is because I wanted to. Not for the accolades or the thanks but because it made me feel good.
So when you do something that makes you feel good a thank you is immaterial. It doesn't matter. It would be nice but you do what you do so that you feel good about yourself.
What better way of getting a thanks.
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