Not if I give it to you as a gift.

Unless we’re some kind of Robin Hood, we don’t steal to pass on to others.  We steal to gain some benefit or advantage or edge for ourselves.

Gifts, in the Native American sense, are always gifts – never become capital.  The early settlers of North America just didn’t get this.  They called those who saw a gift as always being a gift, Indian givers.  

It’s a disparaging term we can aspire to.

Each of us has a gift (knack, purpose, art, calling, vocation, element, flow) which isn’t to be kept to ourselves but to be gifted to others.  Indeed, the only way to develop this is in sharing it.  But if I give something to you, I don’t want you to keep it to yourself, I’d love it if you were to pass it on.

What’s your gift?*

(*Sometimes we can make a living from what it is we love to do, but I’m thinking about what