We are taught to be polite. We say please, thank you and bless you when someone sneezes. It’s ingrained. This is a good thing.
We sometimes are so concerned by being polite we forget to say thank you for things that really matter to us. Thank you for listening to me rant for an hour because my brain was terrified by change. Thank you for making me a cup of tea and leaving me the good biscuits. Thank you for dealing with that spider. Thank you for seeing me for who I am, the ranty, tea drinker who eats all the biscuits and doesn’t like spiders, and still being there.
Let’s be grateful for the stuff that matters and let people know that you see them, and who they are, and that their being in your life gives you the proper fizzy.
For Michelle Hardwick, who said thank you and meant it.