Our Gifts

Is it very commendable to be a prestigious professional and to be part of the cream of society,but really not to know who you are?
Many people lose their way; maybe, they are so immersed in their jobs,relationships and valuables that they forget to be grateful for all the things they have.
I'm reading a book which title is "El mejor regalo",( There's an English version as "The Christmas Sweater"); this book appeared in front of me in a library and it attracted my attention I don't know why.
My mother said me that the book seemed like a storybook for children but I didn't think so.
Finally much to my surprise,she agreed to buy me it; and a few days ago,I started to read it.
I was surprised because there's such sensitivity in this book that while I was reading it I spent most of the time crying.
I'd like to put here its plot summary:

- "If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You?
When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder -- and money tighter -- since his father died and the family bakery closed...Eddie dreamed that "somehow" his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.

What he got from her instead was a sweater. ""A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater"" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.

Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family -- and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell -- to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart before dying."-


I can't stop thinking about the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another with love.
Next Monday it will be my mother's birthday, so I wish give her sth with such love as this book has brought to me.