Do we appreciate enough?
A fabulous advertisement, released some years ago, would show a very young housewife, happily serving a dish to her husband and waiting for appreciation from him. Instead, after tasting the dish, the man would comment that it was not so good as what his mother would make!!The message was loud and clear. The woman would be hurt, and would simply put the chutney making machine, asking her husband to make his own chutney.
Well, though the advertisement was meant to be humorous, it had a wider implication -- we do not appreciate others at all. Our wives or husbands often end up being hurt everyday.
The young child would show up her notebook and virtually look eagerly into our eyes for that one good word of appreciation. At that time, we would think about our rather nasty boss at work, and be lost in our own thoughts. The child would lose his or her patience and might just walk away.
Instances are not rare, when we lose sight of the basics of emotional intelligence and do all the wrong things. We just do not appreciate enough. We need to wake up and start appreciating others. A whole new world of happiness will start coming our way, once we do this. For, happy people all around us will simply make our lives that much more happier, at all times.