I have what I have given (G. D'Annunzio)

Gabriele D'Annunzio is one of the personalities of Italian culture who I admire the most. In addition to being an excellent poet and philosopher, he was a man of action, one of those who did everything possible to talk the talk and walk the walk. "I have what I have given" is a simple sentence that contains the answer to a thousand questions about the existential evil that afflicts many people. 

Everyone expects to receive but they forget to give. Our society wants to banish "duty", "toil" , in other words the "giving", believing, I do not know why, that one has some birthright to "receive" regardless. The simple D'Annunzio's rule applies to material goods as well as, and above all, to feelings.

I hear endless complaints about everything and constantly wonder what have they given to expect something? the whinings such as "nobody loves me" to which I mentally respond "why on earth should anyone?". At the exact moment you give you are already receiving. It would be that simple.  

m.m.