Thank You
I just went through a TED talk about human relations and social bonding.And then I recalled the Joker from Batman, there's his famous statement 'When you are good at something, never do it for free'.
Practically speaking, we humans don't need to hear this, I think we already behave this way. Every time we help out someone, there is some motif of personal gain behind it, although we sometimes don't express it but its there. And as we expect some fair amount of return for our jobs, we simply get a THANK YOU.
This word, I would say has turned pretty blunt now. People have overused it to such a great extent that nowadays I don't find any feeling of gratefulness attached to the word. People, incidentally,me too, use THANK YOU so often that there's no meaning to it.
And I think that's making people feel that they are not being paid the return properly. Take me for instance, i do feel it really emotionless when someone just says a plain thank u to me. Same;s the case for Sorry, everyone uses it sooo much that I don't think we nowadays feel any regret while uttering Sorry.
And that's what makes me expect more from people, something more than just a Sorry or a Thank you. Maybe its my fault, some fault in my mentality, or maybe I am too narrow minded to always expect some words of gratitude from others, but i think that's how it works. We always need others to show us acknowledgement or repentance according to situations.
I don't know if its our evolvement as a better linguistic society that has made these words blunt or its just overuse or it simply can be this way: that i myself am expecting more from people YET....I feel, we have lost the essence of a THANK U.
Practically speaking, we humans don't need to hear this, I think we already behave this way. Every time we help out someone, there is some motif of personal gain behind it, although we sometimes don't express it but its there. And as we expect some fair amount of return for our jobs, we simply get a THANK YOU.
This word, I would say has turned pretty blunt now. People have overused it to such a great extent that nowadays I don't find any feeling of gratefulness attached to the word. People, incidentally,me too, use THANK YOU so often that there's no meaning to it.
And I think that's making people feel that they are not being paid the return properly. Take me for instance, i do feel it really emotionless when someone just says a plain thank u to me. Same;s the case for Sorry, everyone uses it sooo much that I don't think we nowadays feel any regret while uttering Sorry.
And that's what makes me expect more from people, something more than just a Sorry or a Thank you. Maybe its my fault, some fault in my mentality, or maybe I am too narrow minded to always expect some words of gratitude from others, but i think that's how it works. We always need others to show us acknowledgement or repentance according to situations.
I don't know if its our evolvement as a better linguistic society that has made these words blunt or its just overuse or it simply can be this way: that i myself am expecting more from people YET....I feel, we have lost the essence of a THANK U.
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