My hometown Indore is famous for Namkeen. We get very good quality and tempting taste Namkeen in Indore. All my friends and colleagues knows about it. Every time when I visit Indore, I get some Namkeen for my friends. I was working in Germany and was coming to Indore for a short vacation. One of my friend asked me to bring a pack of special namkeen for him. Without fail I bought a packet for him and he was very happy having it. Then he asked me how much he should pay for the packet .. I got it for him as friend so I didn’t want to take the money. But he was continuously insisting to take money and asked him to pay Rs 51080. He got shocked, but he knew that I’m joking. I immediately gave him calculation , Rs 80 for Namkeen and Rs 51000 for flight expenses to Indore. Then he said, he asked for the Namkeen only, why he should pay for flight . And my logic was that I didn’t bought that packet for selling .., if I have to sell then I should include all the expenses to get the packet till there. In the end , my friend smiled and happily accepted the packet for free J.

Looking from his perspective, he was trying to pay for the packet which he was receiving. But actually, he was forgetting that there are some efforts and emotions associated to get the packet .

This happens very often with us . We try to evaluate gift by its price and we forget the associated emotions and efforts required to get the gift . For me actual value of gift lies in the emotions and efforts and which are priceless.

Today, I received an awesome and Priceless gift from one of my Friend…. Two pebbles.  What made pebbles priceless .. the emotions attached to it.  The pebble came from holy land of Mansarover, my dream place to visit once in life time.  I asked her to bring these stones when she visited there last month. She had BP problem and she was having very hard time to survive there. She  had to cut short her tour , suffering from breathing problems. Despite of all these odd situations, she remembered my request and got those pebbles for me. I’m really so happy, not able to find any word to thank her for this priceless gift. I am planning to frame these pebbles in glass case and keep with me for rest of life as one of my BEST gift I ever had.

Gifts are pack of emotions, and should be return in same way only. Price of emotions can be paid by emotions only. No other currency can buy it . We should not try to pay money in return of gifts.

If we really want to return , then we should also give some gift in return.

Value of gift cannot be compared with its price, but can only be compared with the emotions involved.