I like to bake a lot for others, but it takes a lot of my time, my energy, my resources and you just can’t get around that.
For these reasons, and more, I feel very emotional when I give people things I have made. I want them to like it and to eat them. I get really hurt when people do not and just let it go to waste.
First of all, if it was going to go to waste, then I shouldn’t have made it. Second, it feels disrespectful to the time and effort I put into it.
I know that some would say that once you relinquish control over something then it shouldn’t affect you, that their waste doesn’t diminish the value of the gift, but that’s not how I feel.
I do feel it is disrespectful and it does hurt me. I definitely am not one of those people who works all the time and doesn’t have the time, nor am I just basking in free time. But it is an instant in which I have taken the time out of my day to make someone something with them specifically in mind.
And I think that should count for something. Share it, give it to some people, just don’t let the hard work of mine to go to waste.