If you felt it, then it is better you don't gift. Gifting is an act where you express your feelings like appreciation, affection admiration and so or even in an open sense to convince somebody. In any reasons we shouldn't get attached with the gift we present. It not a clean act.
Gifting should be done with all your heart.
Once a trader offered some expensive clothes to Buddha as gift when he was visiting his village and addressing the people. After the preach Buddha gave all the gifts he received to the people around. The trader was not happy with what his master was done. He went to Buddha and asked "why you didn't care the gift that I gave you?"
Buddha smiled and asked " why you gave me those clothes to me if you had that much feelings over them?, You gift me the clothes but not your heart, so it wasn't a gift. It is this attachment that makes us unhappy in our lives."
When we gift something to someone, its not the gift, but it is the heart which is valued. There the gift is not appreciated but the heart. Regard the heart, not the thing. Care the heart not the gift.
Live free.... give up the attachments.
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