Personal Narrative: An Interview With Ralph Waldo Emerson
I decided to interview my best friend, Whitney, about the ways that she shows and expresses love. She said that she realizes that different people have different kinds of love languages, and she tries to meet their own, unique ways of receiving and feeling love. However, expressing words of affirmation comes more naturally to her, and it’s easiest for her to express her love and care for people using this form of love. She also stated that receiving words of affirmation helps her feel validated and important more than any other expression of the love language. I have seen this multiple times when she has been going through a difficult time. My first reaction is to help her in the way that I naturally feel loved and helped, through quality time
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However, I realized last year that I prefer something else even more: the giving of gifts. When I buy somebody I love a gift, I get giddy just thinking about giving it to them. I can rarely wait until the occasion (birthday, holiday, etc.) and usually end up telling them what it is or giving it them before the date I originally desired. And this extends to every kind of gift. Whether it is a surprise expensive concert ticket to my best friend’s favorite artist, or even a candy bar that I bought for someone to give in class, I get so happy and feel so fulfilled in giving gifts. For me, it is helping me express to the person that I think about them. It is easy to think about somebody when you’re with them, but when you’re thinking of little gifts to give them when you’re away, it shows even a greater love to me. So when I go to the store or I’m in places where there are things to purchase, I am often thinking of others and seeing if they would like anything there. It doesn’t only extend to purchasing, but I love to make things for people. Before I left on my mission, I made my mother a book for Christmas. I asked almost everyone that knew her to write a short letter expressing a memory or reason why they loved her. I was ecstatic every time I received a new letter, and there ended up being dozens of pages in this book. This gift required a lot of time, and I
However, I realized last year that I prefer something else even more: the giving of gifts. When I buy somebody I love a gift, I get giddy just thinking about giving it to them. I can rarely wait until the occasion (birthday, holiday, etc.) and usually end up telling them what it is or giving it them before the date I originally desired. And this extends to every kind of gift. Whether it is a surprise expensive concert ticket to my best friend’s favorite artist, or even a candy bar that I bought for someone to give in class, I get so happy and feel so fulfilled in giving gifts. For me, it is helping me express to the person that I think about them. It is easy to think about somebody when you’re with them, but when you’re thinking of little gifts to give them when you’re away, it shows even a greater love to me. So when I go to the store or I’m in places where there are things to purchase, I am often thinking of others and seeing if they would like anything there. It doesn’t only extend to purchasing, but I love to make things for people. Before I left on my mission, I made my mother a book for Christmas. I asked almost everyone that knew her to write a short letter expressing a memory or reason why they loved her. I was ecstatic every time I received a new letter, and there ended up being dozens of pages in this book. This gift required a lot of time, and I