My dearest Claudia,
The day you were born I felt like the universe has given me everything I had ever wished for. I was the happiest and luckiest man on earth. Throughout the past 9 years, I have watched you grow, play, cry, dance and laugh. Until last Saturday you conjured the same feelings in me like the day you were born.
You wanted to go out for dinner and you know how much I enjoy our Saturday night dinners together. You made it the most special day in my life that I shall cherish till the day I die. it wasn’t the dinner, the location, or the food. It was the simple fact that you decided to invite me to dinner using what was your savings money and all of it. You know well I had the money to pay for it, but it was the pleasure you took in spending that money to invite me and leaving the rest needlessly for the staff. Few times have I seen an adult give so needlessly, so detached from money that they horde and take to grave. Few times I have seen children give the way you give.
I am a giver like you. I always like to invite and couple that with my Persian roots where we fight over who pays the bill, one person said that this should not be a surprise. I have enjoyed giving and sharing what I have, and I have equally been invited, but few times have I seen a giving of this sort. You spent all your savings to enjoy that evening with me, you prioritized that over all the toys and physical things that money can buy and there are no words that can describe this. It is not the amount but the act and the way you gave, the way you paid, and the way you thanked the staff.
Few hearts of gold have I seen like yours. I know that you have could have spent it on more toys and more virtual games but you chose to spend it on us and each time I think of it, the tears in my eyes flow helplessly and the lump in my throat grows so big that I can’t talk. To console myself I have transferred 10X the amount of that bill into your savings account and I have promised to spend an equal some for whatever you want during these holidays, only if to comfort my ego, for there is no amount or gift that can replace or repay how you made me feel on Saturday.
I am writing this to you into the future so that you can hopefully read and remember this special moment and never forget to give.
Give needlessly and understand the value of what money can buy. Give in order to receive and give without asking what you can get in return. Make this part of your routine and the universe will return all and every single one of them. Along my path and life, I met many who gave, they gave knowing that at the time I can’t give back and I could probably never give back directly to them but they never asked. We are all but one and whatever you give to whomever you give is no different than giving it to yourself.
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