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It\u2019s that time of the year when all across the country, as well as the world, people are preparing for their respective gift-giving holidays and putting way more thought than really should be necessary in pondering on what to get for the ones in our lives we feel the compulsion to give gifts to.\u00a0 And because I am fortunate to have people in my life who care about me, I\u2019ve been asked for what I want, or lists of things that might want to expedite their pursuits for checking me off a respective list.<\/span><\/p>\n The honest answer to if there is anything that I want is that I literally want nothing.\u00a0 There is no physical tangible thing out there at this juncture in my life that will improve my standing in said life, and I would rather have absolutely nothing over one more piece of existing matter that can further fill up my house that I already feel is packed to the brim with, things.<\/span><\/p>\n Not even any more wrestling blets, because for starters there aren\u2019t any blets out there that I actually want anymore, and secondly because I have no office or personal space to put them in, any further blets would just sit in my closet out of sight until whatever day comes when I can have a private space again.<\/span><\/p>\n What I would really like, is to receive cash, if I had to get any gifts at all.\u00a0 But the thing is, at least with so many Americans, cash is considered not a good gift, as it\u2019s impersonal or thoughtless or other pejoratives people who feel this way use to try and justify their opinions that it\u2019s just not a good gift.<\/span><\/p>\n Quite the contrary, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a gift better than cold hard currency, because it shows that you care enough to want to gift something to a person, but at the same time, take into consideration that they can actually then use it on specifically what they want, because the things people want might be personal or too expensive and require lots of other cash gifts to help to go toward it, but the fact of the matter is that cash is one of those things most could probably use, but at least in America, probably won\u2019t get solely based on perception bias of cash as gifts.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Korean part of my upbringing, cash as gifts was about as common as white people giving out cups and mugs* as gifts.\u00a0 Not only does it demonstrate thoughtfulness, it also takes into consideration that the recipient is now free to use it towards what might actually make them happy, instead of receiving something that they might have to pretend being happy over and making it awkward when it\u2019s never seen of again, or worse off, ends up in a charity pile or discreetly sold on Facebook Marketplace.<\/span><\/p>\n *this is another can of worms that maybe I\u2019ll rant about the next time it triggers me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, I\u2019d love it if everyone who wanted to get me a gift would just send me cash.\u00a0 The only things I want are time, which I know can\u2019t be purchased, and relief from feeling like I\u2019m scraping by, which can only be gifted in the forms of cash that I\u2019d use to help keep my head above water.\u00a0 And it wouldn\u2019t be like using gift cash to pay for my bills or anything, it would be like cash used to help cover for actual indulgences that just happened to have occurred in the past, like the multitude of Disney trips that have happened over the last two years where it always feels like I\u2019m trying to dig out of.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s what would actually make me happy.\u00a0 Things won\u2019t make me as happy as the alleviation of some of the financial undertakings that I\u2019ve been put on, because there is a direct correlation with my financial security and my general state of happiness, and anything that can bring me any sort of relief, would be the most welcome gift of all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s that time of the year when 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