A Day For Gratitude
Appreciation of kindness;thankfulness - the meaning of gratitude in the Oxford English dictionary. i didn't even know about World Gratitude Day until i read about it in the papers. Celebrated on September 21st every year for the past fifty years!. We have to thank Sri Chinmoy,head of the UN Meditation Group;the founder of World Gratitude Day.
How many of us really mean it when we thank someone for help rendered or kindness shown? Do we actually feel gratitude in our hearts? or we just utter the words quickly with no feeling but exercise good manners?. Some don't even say thank you anymore because they feel the giver or doer 'owes' them. This people think "Thank You" should be used sparingly and only when they feel it is deserving.
Observe this in your daily life and you will agree with me that most people from kids to adults no longer say thank you. i usually eyeball my students when i don't hear this word. i cannot understand how they don't seem to know such basic manners. Gratitude is probably an alien word or an obsolete feeling to a huge number of people nowadays.
A day to remind all of us; hopefully creates a jolt strong enough to appreciate all that we have and not in a manner of comparing with others but truly appreciating everything in our lives. Saying thank you and meaning it, being grateful and feeling it. Starting with being appreciative of good health, saying thank you for fine weather and being grateful for the meals we partake for instance.
i've been doing this and it feels fantastic!. It creates a chain reaction of attracting good things and it is easy, simple and everyone should practise it. If you did before but not anymore, then revive practising gratitude and share the experience with family and friends. It is a wondrous feeling that should always live in our hearts.
How many of us really mean it when we thank someone for help rendered or kindness shown? Do we actually feel gratitude in our hearts? or we just utter the words quickly with no feeling but exercise good manners?. Some don't even say thank you anymore because they feel the giver or doer 'owes' them. This people think "Thank You" should be used sparingly and only when they feel it is deserving.
Observe this in your daily life and you will agree with me that most people from kids to adults no longer say thank you. i usually eyeball my students when i don't hear this word. i cannot understand how they don't seem to know such basic manners. Gratitude is probably an alien word or an obsolete feeling to a huge number of people nowadays.
A day to remind all of us; hopefully creates a jolt strong enough to appreciate all that we have and not in a manner of comparing with others but truly appreciating everything in our lives. Saying thank you and meaning it, being grateful and feeling it. Starting with being appreciative of good health, saying thank you for fine weather and being grateful for the meals we partake for instance.
i've been doing this and it feels fantastic!. It creates a chain reaction of attracting good things and it is easy, simple and everyone should practise it. If you did before but not anymore, then revive practising gratitude and share the experience with family and friends. It is a wondrous feeling that should always live in our hearts.
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