Reciprocity

Giving and receiving as one movement, like the tide.

The act of giving and receiving is not two movements but one.
The tide does not question whether it comes or goes.
Kindness completes itself in motion.

Between the waves there is a pause —
a moment of still water,
where both the giver and the given rest together.
That is where gratitude lives:
not in the returning,
but in the shared stillness that follows.

And even when the tide withdraws,
it does not forget the shore it kissed.
The gift remains — not in possession,
but in the trace of warmth it leaves behind.

Every act of kindness moves in this way:
one gesture, returning through time,
finding again the hand that once released it.