Thanks for the Gratitude

Sitting here in one of my offices, downtown (don’t worry about which city)…its 1:36 EST in the afternoon as I glace at the bottom right laptop time that haunts me on most days but not today. Today the day is actually going calming and like clockwork. That’s unsual, most times that things are going like clockwork for me, requires the opposite of smooth or calm on my part.
There are many parts of me that I understand are incomprehendible to most people, at least most of the people I have been BLESSED to know in this well travelled lifetime…despite this contradiction from the norm of thoughts and maybe even because of the unorthodoxness of the forms these thoughts take, I find that many want to know what I think and how. Of course some are simply paid to and must exhibit that curiousity.
I took a call a second ago…those of you who KNOW me understand even taking a call speaks volumes, I only slightly digress by mentioning this….Im very fond of saying these few words, when I have done for someone and they in turn smile /cry out/calmly speak or yell the words “Thank you”, my response “DON’T MENTION IT”. I know this is a common cliche. The difference when I speak it is I really mean it….and those selected few folks (much less than the possibility or the numbers that have desired to be touched by me) who have gotten close enough to me, for me to directly get involved in their lives or life’s drama, understand that this is beyond words for me….I really don’t want the “thanks yous” mentioned beyond the moment that a giving has been done. Every time I’m in the mist of the recipient or at times the family of the recipient, I don’t want to be reminded of the actions I carried out in the favor of another. Be GRATEFUL but keep it moving.
Does the act of doing good for another, in and of itself provide me with some level of bliss that quenches any amount that the words “thank you” could ever provide----HELL NO!!! That’s not it at all…There are some people out there, who because I care enough for them, by simply doing for them, knowing that in some way I made their tomorrow more comfortable, more secure, much more tolerable, brings an unexpected smile, a joy, to my heart….most of these folks kinda look like me, and some im glad don’t, but all of them I place under my umbrella of Family…The smiling heart is not the reason I care less for their “thank yous” either. The reason is one that applies to them the same way it applies to the newcomer in my life…..
One word-----GRATITUDE. This is why I care less about your thank yous. True gratitude can’t be spoken, only shown. So save your words but show me your gratitude….Gratitude pays dividends and passes the test of time…It looks a certain way, it talks a certain way, it smells a certain way, it ACTS a certain way. How does is it walk, talk and act – GRATEFULLY. Beyond the hour or day that the act of giving has been bestowed on the needy recipient, there should be visible evidence of gratitude that one person has been aided by another...So when I do for YOU, don’t say “thank you”, ACT THANKFUL