The Saratoga Sun -

Why do we give gifts?

Every Christmas, birthday, anniversary and special occasion we carefully choose and offer gifts to our loved ones. It’s something we do naturally and most of us don’t think about its deeper implications. The giving of gifts may be one of the oldest of human activities that predates civilization and may go back to the origin of our species.

Even in primitive cavemen culture, the giving of gifts was fairly common as it was used to show love and affection towards one another. Whether it was an unusually shaped rock, a tooth from an animal, the bark from a tree or som...