When someone does something for us we thank them. Especially if it’s a stranger, we are all into showing our good manners and etiquettes. But what about the people who actually do all they can for us and do not expect a single thing in return? Do we ever consider thanking them for all that they have been doing for us all along? Knowingly and unknowingly people do something or the other for us all our as well as their lives. These people can be our close buddies, our relatives, our siblings and even our parents. Believe it or not but every person you meet in your life helps you with something and lets you grow. Be it your neighbor, some person you have hated all your life or even a few of your good or bad wishers. In some or the other manner all these people have been there always. Let’s take our parents for example. We simple cannot enlist all the things they have done for us. Not only that they have given us birth but they have given us everything we want at all the required times of life. They have always shown tremendous love and support throughout. Even in poverty they have assured us security and provided us with everything that we required. Obviously we cannot thank them enough for all they have done for us. But we can try that by our deeds. Similarly there are many such people who have been through our thick and thin. Someone who listened to us when we wanted to cry our heart out and never shared that moment with anyone else even though they hated listening to us crib. Someone who has taken all our tantrums and not uttered a word, someone who has been through your craziness and yet stood by you calling you a friend.
All these people need to be thanked for whatever they have done. No matter what they feel about you now or no matter what you feel about them you need to thank them not for them but for you to feel good and free. Thanking someone or giving them their earned credit makes them happy and eventually you are happy as well. I have always voiced it through my previous posts as well that everyone who has earned some kind of credit in your life needs to be awarded with the same. Let’s just try and celebrate this Thanks Giving whenever possible. There is no particular time or day when you need to thank people. You just do it. Keep your ego aside and feel all the good things about everyone, even the person whom you might dislike or even hate. This also helps in another way that is, when you think about all the good things about the person you dislike, may it be even one good thing, there is a possibility that your perception about that person might change. You might not hate that person or dislike the person to the extent you did previously. Now, it might crop up in your mind that what if the person you dislike dislikes you too and laughs out at you when you thank him or her for something and you end up annoyed? Just remember one thing, you are doing it for yourself and not for anyone else. Who cares about what he/she thinks? You are following your deeds and you will bear the fruit for the same. There is no point thinking otherwise. Trust me this really makes you feel content and aloof of any feeling of pressure or obligation. Try it once maybe you will find yourself at peace.
Cheers to you, cheers to lyf…!
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