Often in this holiday season, we feel compelled to buy as many gift cards as we can to give to people who are giving us a gift. We expect that we return something to our friends for their gifts. Even love. We expect to return love.
This is pointless, as described by Jane English, because they are our friends. There's no obligation to give a gift back to your friends because that's what friends do. You don't trade, you give.
Since that was a cli-ché ending and that would be an injustice to you, myself and this blog...
In conclusion, those who understand this principle can understand that no one is obligated to do anything for your friends. Unfortunately, this will destroy friendships, as the materialist American society depends on the constant use of commercial items to declare absolutely anything, including love. This definition of "friend" that we now have is more similar to a bank rather than a companion. Thus, it is often true that pets make better friends than humans.
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