Cory this was a great idea and shows how good people are and how bad people are.
Those of you that committed and followed through, were able to see the enjoyment from those you gave a gift to, priceless. The day that I picked up my gift for Morgan I also helped out 3 other individuals that day. It felt wonderful and kept me smiling the entire day.
But it is unfortunate that there are people out there that see this is an opportunity to get something with no intention on contributing themselves. I hate to be harsh, and I would be in the right frame of mind by saying these people will be going to #$@%, and that is unfortunate. But we all know that these type of people exist. If you dont feel that its in your best interest to buy a gift or give something to someone, then dont, but dont get involved and dont except something as if you are and then lie about why you didnt participate.
I say this because we (wafishbox) had an individual here (younger member) want to be involved in this, but really had no intention on participating, which is a shame. This individual was my secret Santa. I am not upset because I didnt receive anything, I am upset for the individual I was going to donate that gift to, and I am upset because this member thought that it was necessary to lie to me as to why I didnt receive my gift. It is unfortunate that this ex-member is this way at such a young age, I only pray that he sees the light and changes his ways. I wished him well, and also told him that he should get to know Karma a little better, because if he keeps this up Karma is going to be a guppy and always hold him down.
By the way, he is an ex-member because once I fronted him about his lies, he quickly deleted his account.
I say this and bring it out into the open for a few reasons. Thank you to those that participated, it felt good didnt it? And to those of you that still think and do things like this ex-member, it gets you no where, you will always be wandering why things bad happen to you, change the way you think now before you are not able. I am a strong believer in Karma, in fact I use to think the same way as this ex-member, I did things like this and I was always running into road blocks in life. I changed my way of thinking, believing, and treating about 5 years ago, and I no longer have Karma's number. Or should I say, "they no longer have mine".
Lets do this again in 2014 Cory, hopefully we can get more people involved this time.
