{"id":2168,"date":"2020-05-03T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T03:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melaniebnewman.com\/staging\/9944\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:29:52","slug":"thanking-those-we-took-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniebnewman.com\/staging\/9944\/thanking-those-we-took-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanking Those We Took for Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think I&#8217;m a person who <strong>gives thanks easily, but I recognize that I might take some people for granted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was recently reminded of an exercise I was challenged to do a couple of years ago, that brought this to my attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Every day for 30 days I wrote a thank you note to someone. Preferably hand-written, sent through the mail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After initially wondering who those 30 people could be, I began to have fun <b>remembering people I normally would never think to thank.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It took some time, though <b>the benefit far out-weighed the effort.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It became a turning point in my life to realize t<b>he power of gratitude.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was reminded of this recently when I received an email from the employees of the school lunch room with our remaining balance. Since my youngest child is finishing her senior year of high school online because of COVID-19, the lunchroom employees were closing out their books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I quickly wrote the check when I remembered my experience years before of expressing gratitude on a daily basis in hand-written letters. I thought to myself, why not send these lunchroom ladies a note of thanks?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019d had children in school for the last 23 years, and hadn\u2019t ever written these school employees to say thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lunchroom service is easy to take for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I chose the prettiest stationary I had and <b>enjoyed the feeling I received from expressing on paper my appreciation for their service.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That little note lifted me more than it probably lifted them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Could you express written gratitude today to someone you ordinarily wouldn\u2019t think to thank?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Texting, emailing or speaking to the person are all good ways to communicate, but how about the <b>extra touch of mailing a heartfelt note today?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Much love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melaniebnewman.com\/staging\/9944\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signature.png\" alt=\"Melanie Newman\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think I&#8217;m a person who gives thanks easily, but I recognize that I might take some people for granted. 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