11/16/2010

Toy Drive

‘Tis the season for giving, right? I tend to get bogged down with thoughts of gift buying and giving. It isn’t that I mind gift giving—when I get it right and manage to give someone something he actually wants and/or needs, it feels really nice. Then there are those times when I just don’t know what to get for certain people. I end up getting them a gift just for the sake of giving a gift, and they do the same for me. And it always leaves me wondering: what’s the purpose?

Then along comes a toy drive to put me back into the spirit of purposeful giving, such as the toy drive being facilitated by Phy-sique Fitness in Gulf Shores. All you have to do is bring new, unwrapped toys to the facility, and you’ll have made a significant impact on the quality of a child’s holiday season. That’s the kind of giving that feels good.