I’m not talking about obligatory follow through. \u00a0I’m not talking about the need to reciprocate. \u00a0I’m not talking about fulfilling someone else’s expectations.<\/p>\n
I’m talking about the sheer bliss of giving BECAUSE YOU WANT TO.<\/p>\n
With no other lingering, hidden feeling lurking behind the giving.<\/p>\n
There’s no expectation in it, no regret, no pressure, no feeling that you “had to”. \u00a0The one and only reason for the giving is because in your heart of hearts you want to. \u00a0What you want. \u00a0To who you want. \u00a0Without needing, without WANTING anything back.<\/p>\n
That’s right. \u00a0My bliss lies in doing it. \u00a0Utterly and completely in the doing.<\/p>\n
Full stop.<\/p>\n
The only thing I hope for on the other end is to see a bit of my joy reflected in the receiver’s reaction. \u00a0That’s my payoff.<\/p>\n
And what a fucking awesome payoff it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not talking about obligatory follow through. \u00a0I’m not talking about the need to reciprocate. \u00a0I’m not talking about fulfilling someone else’s expectations. I’m talking about the sheer bliss of giving BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. With no other lingering, hidden feeling lurking behind the giving. There’s no expectation in it, no regret, no pressure, no … Continue reading (My) 8 Blisses of Yule: #2, Giving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[17,40,105,107,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}