Sentiments

Whether we like it or not, our relationships are solidly founded on sentiment. Many times sentiment is dependent on perceptions, and is nurtured by them. We like, love or hate others depending on our sentiments towards them. Sentiments are cultivated through inter-relationships, through direct and indirect contacts, through the grapevine, and through other subtle avenues, or put plainly, through perceptions.

Following our finer and smarter character traits we work hard to cultivate in others pleasant dispositions by way of an investment for the soliciting of favours when the right occasion presents itself.

For example, it would be terribly hard to refuse a favour after having received gifts, which, understandably, may not necessarily be concrete objects.

There is much truth in the Latin saying "I am afraid of the Danaos when they bring forth their gifts," after having received an imposing Trojan horse left outside the gates of Troy, which led to a disastrous ending.

Which goes on to indicate that offering gifts or receiving them is not always a very sound investment proposal. It all depends on the intentions of the giver as well as of those of the receiver.

A variety of factors may be responsible for sentiments to change. The status of what we love here and now may change. Friends may become foes, comrades may become enemies, acquaintances unknowns.

What happens to objects of sentimental value when the status is lost ?

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