Giving freely to others makes me feel wonderful.

Freely is the demanding half. Most giving comes with quiet attachments — a hope of being thanked properly, a note kept somewhere about who owes what to whom.

Consider the version with the strings cut. Money given to someone who will spend it in a way you wouldn't. Help offered to a person who will never mention it again. It is uncomfortable, and it is the only version that leaves the giver with nothing to manage afterwards.

Which turns out to be the wonderful part. Not the gratitude — the absence of admin.