To give is to engage oneself and to make a free and spontaneous gesture without expecting anything in return. In our society, if we look closely, examples of people who are capable of giving differently, without expecting reciprocity, abound. Think of volunteering, the non-profit economy, those who give their time, sectors that share a different logic from the dominant ones of profit and utilitarianism. Giving is a way to transcend the boundaries of the ego, to be part of the world and life: all of this nourishes happiness and inner contentment, like a bright thread that runs through our existence and makes it unique and precious. The act of giving should become a gesture of normal humanity.

Giving, a spontaneous and free gesture
The act of making a donation must require no reciprocity, but should have the ability to place a good in the hands of another without receiving anything in return. In giving, there is a subject, the donor, who in unconstrained freedom and through generosity, through love, gives to the other, regardless of the other’s response. Therefore, giving is an act that stems from spontaneity and freedom.
This concept of giving is capable of conceiving a new subject who expresses an act, a personal choice in complete freedom, a free act par excellence without any reciprocity, where the goods given become vehicles of relationship and not mere instruments of exchange. This conception of giving as a relational modality is an extremely necessary impulse in a society that perceives the other as an enemy or rival, which experiences a persistent economic crisis reminiscent of the inadequacy and insufficiency of market economies, and which witnesses an increase in aggression fueling the spread of conflicts in various parts of the world. There is a moral need for gratuity, for gestures of solidarity capable of restoring signs of hope and peace to entire communities and territories. Thus, giving becomes a constitutive factor of living together.