Words of Gratitude 

Welcome to Episode 3 and today I will be talking about the absolute importance of words of gratitude

You hear a lot from others, don’t you about how grateful you should be? What are you grateful for today? by an anonymous writer “Be grateful for small mercies” or “you should be grateful you are not poor” or “think yourself lucky you have got a job or your health or your family ” and so on Insert the appropriate phrase; I am sure you get the picture. 

Those common, trip off the tongue,  words of gratitude, how lucky I am to be alive, how lucky I am to have food to eat, how lucky I am to have a job or whatever it was I should be eternally grateful for.

 I am ashamed to say, as a younger woman I never really took any of it as seriously as I should have. 

To me, it was something your elders trotted out when they wanted to make a point about you being an ungrateful little so and so. 

So, naturally, it went in one ear and out the other. 

It is only later and I am not really sure why the acknowledgement of words of gratitude seems to have taken on a greater significance in my life.

 Perhaps it is because I can now hear all the time, the much younger generation behind me, dismissing those words of wisdom in the same cavalier fashion I did. I hear them poo-pooing parents and grandparents and elders, just like I did at their age and into early adulthood 

And I don’t like it, says she who is now acutely ashamed of herself for being like it herself. 

Their arrogance and sense of invincibility matched with a “nothing can touch me” attitude pervading their snorts of mocking. The “old fogeys” are just rattling on. 

Recently I have found myself wondering why it has become so important to me now. I think it is because it has just dawned on me I might have become the “old fogey”... 

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