Getting it Right

I was in a lingerie store this evening and overheard a conversation between a very ticked off girlfriend and a not so interested boyfriend... she was complaining that he didn't help her, and he was asking what she wanted his opinion for...

It made me think how often we miss the point. We do something for someone (or so we think) like this girl buying sexy underwear for her partner's pleasure, and yet the someone that we're trying to please just isn't that interested in what we're doing. (There may be a guy's perspective on this - it's just my feminine take on the situation.)

There's so many possible applications to this issue, but tonight, I'm too tired to put energy into the typing of them - but it is worth thinking on. Do we do what we do because that's how we feel loved, do we do what we do because that's what we think another wants, do we do what we do because that's what someone really appreciates, or, do we just do whatever the hell we want to do?