Say ‘thank you’

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:00:32 +0000

LEGISLATORS and educators want our kids to learn the rudiments of good conduct and right manners. Thank you very much, let’s start with those first two words, if not all four. Why do today’s generation think “thank you” is for the birds?

Blame it on their parents. The same parents who, when fetching their kids from school, pull them along the street, not using the pedestrian lane and crossing when the light is green for cars. At the mall, their backpacks hit you in the ribs and they don’t mind, so why should you. To them, saying “excuse me” is unheard of, as strange a language as it is extinct.

“Thank you” that we don’t need a turkey dinner tonight to be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving! According to the Word of God, a sense of gratitude is a blessing that multiplies blessings. In the vernacular, “Walang utang na loob!” sounds like a curse.

“Thank you” to the soldiers who have shed blood in the line of duty. “Thank you” to the policemen who struggle to serve and protect. “Thank you” to the faithful civil servants who work undeterred despite the corruption they see more glaringly than the rest of us.

“Thank you” to your dentist and mine (Dr. Bobby Guison) for their gentle hands, no pain is their gain. “Thank you” to EDSA, the most abused name of an extremely overused road that despite Apocarlypse and Carmageddon has not surrendered its purposefulness. “Thank you” for the law that provides me and 4 million other se
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