It just hurts whenever efforts are not well appreciated or when the response is not what you expected, especially when you do it for the people you love. Because everything you do is out of love and concern, and every second you spend doing that task is with filled with thoughts of that person, filled with every possible best intention. Hence it backfires when it isn't appreciated. It's one of the worst feelings one can experience, at least in my emotional dictionary. I detest it. But it keeps happening to me from time to time. & there's almost nothing you can do. Because reactions and responses reflects how one feels from deep down within. & if one doesn't express that emotion you wished to see, it just doesn't happen. It didn't happen because that person didn't feel it. & all you can do is to think what went wrong, and just feel sad and hurt and nothing else. There is absolutely nothing. Because it's honesty. So you just have to suck it up and hope that one fine day you'll just because less sensitive, not be oversensitive, or desensitized, perhaps.