Wednesday, June 2, 2010

"No Sorry. No Thank You!" Really?!

“Dosti ka ek asool hai, madam... No sorry, no thank you.”

(Translation – “Friendship has one rule, madam… No sorry, no thank you.”

A very famous dialogue from “Maine Pyar Kiya.” It is one of my favorite movies, and I find Prem and Suman (the characters in the movie) absolutely adorable! But seriously, no sorry? No thank you? Why do we forget life’s basic courtesies when it comes to people we are close to? Why do we take them for granted? Why do we treat our own people like it’s their duty to do everything they do for us?

Why does a stranger get a thank you for the smallest of thing, and friends going out of their way to do anything is not worthy of it? I understand that due to cultural differences, not many people are comfortable with these words. But where does this culture go when we say these things, and actually truly mean them for random people? I even understand that ways of expressing ourselves is different for everyone. But again, why do strangers get appreciation for the same thing, and our closed ones don’t?

For any of you giving me the “Human nature” explanation, do you really think it’s true? Blaming anything and everything on “human nature” is really not done. I am a human being and I feel gratitude and apology, irrespective of who the other person is. I mean, gratitude is a feeling/emotion INSIDE me… Then why should it be expressed only for certain specific people. And come to think about it, for people who don’t even matter?

I know that thank you will lose its meaning if we keep repeating it every other second. But there are a lot of other ways to express ourselves. Please do. For a moment just think about how different your life would have been without these people. Imagine what all things you would have missed in life! Imagine the emptiness without them.

PLEASE APPRECIATE! Stop taking them for granted. It is no person’s duty to do anything for you. They are not doing anything to make themselves happy. They are doing it to make YOU happy. Realize it… Before it’s too late.

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