Thanks to "no thanks"

I wasn't seeking to take credit for it, but I thought they saw how I just wanted to make everyone happy, as always. They weren't pretty, the things I had to go through, but I spared them the details and believed sincerely their smiles would have been worth the trouble. I really, really believed it, couldn't wait to give. Maybe that's why their words bruised me. Whatever happened to "It's the thought that counts"?

I feared this would make me give up on giving. But naaah. I'm a bigger person that that.

Note to reader: I'm trying to be as vague as possible here, but if you have a feeling this is about you, then it probably is. Sorry, just had to rant.