Present, pleasant

I'm a kind of person who do not give gifts away often. I'm always short of money because I get small income as a grad. and it is usually not enough to fulfill my needs since I always find for something new and the search requires much money. I prefer using my money for myself even though it should seem to be a bit selfish.

So when I decide to give a present to someone I become really concerned. It's not a trivial event for me and I want to make it perfect. More specifically, I hope my gift would be a really needed and useful one for my recipient and try my best in deciding an item. The most delightful moment for me as a doner is not when I hear thanks from my pal for the gift, but when I witness he or she uses the thing in his/her everyday life. It makes me relived and growing my intention of giving another gift despite of lack of money and stressful selection procedures I should overcome.

I gave some gifts to my favorite athelete and he gave me some pleasant messages without notice. He's a pleasant guy in his late teens; after a couple of mis-selections (like ties and clothes) I came back to my rule-give someone what he needs. Luckiliy I have lots of friends addicted in technologies and machines and they surely share some similarities with my fav. (Boys!) So I tried IPod, which I was sure of being first-rated gift for my friends, and it worked- he appreciated it (of course) and actually used it! It made me happy; I felt that finally I did something helpful for him. :P That was the first message I've got.

Fully satisfied, I had no intention of giving another gift until last autumn. Then lots of negative things had happen to him and he was surely in a hard situation with lots of pressure. I deadly hoped him just enjoy the big event even though it would be so hard, nearly impossible. I wanted to send him a message-"enjoy every second of the game and your life. Everything will become a lifelong memory and wish you have lots of good ones". There was an item which I thought suited perfectly for that. A camera.

A camera has another special meaning for me in following him as a fan. I started taking photos because I wanted to get some good photos of him by myself. Now he's not the main reason of me taking sports photography;I concentrate more on the sports itself. But he, his sports and the camera things entirely changed my life and I owe them a lot since they have given me a power of enduring extremely dull life of a grad. His(and other athletes') photos provided me such nice memories and I wanted to give him the same feelings.

Even though I decided to give a digital camera to him and bought it I was not sure of giving him it until the last minutes. There are lots of reasons but the main reason was that I also needed a digital camera and the one I bought was actually good and fitted perfect for my needs. I was also so worried especially whether he already had his own. But anyway I gave him the present hoping he successfully captures my words in it. I have no idea of his response but he seems to use that anyway. That's the second message and probably the last one, which made me so excited and skipping all over the office. Now what I hope is his having great moments at the event and keeping the memories with my present(probably). If he is willing to share some photos with his fans like me it would be greater. Especially some photos from Hockey final!(and curling final, as a beginner curling fan:D)