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The power of giving

I was at work last night, a wedding, serving into the wee hours, and one of the teen girls working with me kept commenting on my watch. Flattered, I said thank you. But she kept saying it! I mean, it’s a nine dollar watch from Wally-World. Nothing sentimental about it.
So I gave it to her.
She spent the following few hours either asking me “for real?” Or pointing at me from whatever dishpit she was standing gesturing to it with a confused look on her face.
Has no one ever just given her something? I’m actually kind of sad for her! I’m always griping about how entitled kids are these days and she just could not comprehend that I had given her something.
Do we just not do that kind of thing anymore? My husband and I have always been the shirt-off-your-back kind of people, but that’s not something we brag about. It just is. It’s the way it should be. That girl was so happy for something so relatively trivial.
I challenge you to give more.