From The Giver To The Receiver or From the Receiver to the Giver. Vice-Versa!

It's really nice to receive greeting cards especially from the people whom you expect will give you the best of messages and gifts. How many of you still receive greeting cards from the post or are you receiving eCards from the internet via email? Sabi nila hindi na raw uso ang greeting cards. Well uso parin dito kahit anong sabihin mo. The good thing about eCards? You can send it direct from your computer to another computer via internet anywhere, anytime in a fast lane. Sobrang bilis ng dating within seconds lang. While it takes days and even weeks to send a greeting card from city to city or to another country.

Somehow accepting and receiving greeting cards the old fashionable way is still sentimental because of the effort the giver had shown for the most part it is more sincere and the value is priceless.

Whatever! It's the message that counts whether it's an eCard or greeting cards from the mail.

What kind of message you want to receive? Simply depends on what the occasion is. Message that fills the heart. Sentimental. Emotional message of love, caring and of gratitude.

Message of pure devotion, empathy and or sympathy for the loss.

But for the most part, the most admirable messages are the hidden symbolic messages of hope.

What about the cover? The front cover of the card is simply the first attraction.

Once you are at the card shop here are the most common things you should remember:

1. Finding the right card for the occasion: birthday, anniversary, wedding, welcome card for the newborn, shower party card,  baptismal, holidays, thank you cards, sympathy cards, graduation, get well soon card, etc, etc.

2. Finding the right card for that special person: female or male?

3. Front cover? Symbolic, mature, young generation, natural beauty, mother nature, animated, fantasy, real  or imaginary, cartoons, still life, something funny and outrageous, abstract < all these artworks represent the giver's best representation of their knowledge about you or sometimes the representation of the giver's taste to the receiver.

4. Whatever! Who cares?

5. Let's put it this way: A sincere message is the best of them all. Yung walang halong kaplastikan. It's better to give than to  receive? Or should be a give and take?

You give something but you expect that you'll be given a better message something better than you have given to the receiver?