Remember to say, "Thank You!"

First, let me say thank you for reading my blog.  I know the connecting theme for my blogs is randomness.  Going from zombies to thank you notes is quite a stretch in connectivity.  A consistency does exist, though, like in my art cards the linking theme is quirkiness.  Not my first choice of a resume descriptor but kinder than totally strange.

I will be sending a constant contact  (email newsletter) this week suggesting it might be a good time to think about buying some of my “quirky” thank you cards because summer is full of social activities that call out to thank the hosts or in some cases perpetrators.

Several months ago I wrote a blog on thank you notes  (March 13 for several reasons.  First, I think we don’t stop and be thankful for the moment or the gesture.  Secondly, it was a thank you to Wilfrida, and thirdly lack of recognition and gratitude has become a cultural divide driving people to craziness.  Here I am again, but from a different angle… really!

If someone goes out their way for someone else; sends a present, does something special, has a fab party; are we too busy to acknowledge it?  If you are reading this I am preaching to the choir.  A choir loosing members at a rapid rate.

It is so easy to send a text saying, “hey great dinner.”  Especially considering their grand gesture was so much more than a text.  We are told that we should give for the sake of giving  - without expectations.  There are transactional relationships that survive on quid pro quo, like a political action group.

It is a wonderful practice; the intention never to loose sight of giving freely without expectations.  Unfortunately we receive without gratitude all too often.  There are those times where it feels that the edge of the world we live in could tip precariously to the other side of rudeness.  Not ponying up with a gesture of recognition, acknowledging someone’s kind action with a thank you could push the universe of our current residence over the edge! (Where will we fall?)

You dear readers, as the giver and recipients of kind acts, have the good grace to take the time to send a note of appreciation.  If it makes you feel better send this on to the family member, friend or acquaintance that need to receive the message -saying thank you is necessary. 

I say to all of you that mumble, complain and are consistently disappointed by hearing nothing from the same people (you know who you are) - stop doing what ever it is that you do for them.  We are not talking survival issues here just family and friend stuff.  Remember there is a difference between intentional rudeness and folks who are not socially aware.

The available options are to keep doing what you do because you think you have to, or because you choose to and let go of hearing or seeing the words, “thank you”.  So keep sending and saying thanks.  You never know, it may become contagious!