Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work.
But isn’t this attentiveness — the feeling that someone is trying to think about us — something we want more than praise?
Stephen Grotz, The Examined Life: How we Lose and Find Ourselves.
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It is definitely more important that the thought be present over anything more vain or material. In fact, in Italian there is a word “pensierino/i” which means, literally, “little thought/s” which refers to small gifts given just to let someone know you were thinking of them–
xLoJu
“Little thoughts”! Love that
Me too. It’s funny the words/concepts we don’t know we’re missing in our home language until we experience another —
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