When I was 13 I was enrolled into a boarding school and was sent hundreds of kilometers away from the most comfortable space I called 'home'.
I then realized that that was the most profound turning point that brought me where I am today, to which I would never change, whatever comes my way. I am exactly where I want to be. But that story is for another day.
I also learned that there actually was magic, if not in its real form, to which I have been fed before then but in the form of literature. We know it by the name of 'WORD'. Yes, at the boarding school I learned, that there are 5 magic words.
The initials of the 5s are S.T.E.P.S, but the greatness of each was in no particular order. Now is where I am going to tell you what are the steps.
S- Salam
T- THANK YOU
E- Excuse me
P- Please
S- Sorry
Where are the magic? You might ask. But trust me, the magic of these words lie in our daily lives, instilled in our very being, only if we know where and how to use it. But the most important is, whether or not we use it.
Anyway today I'm gonna just emphasize on one magic word and let you folks figure out the rest by yourselves.
See the one with ALL CAPS? Yes that one.
I find it very irritating and disgusting when people who should be using that word during certain times in their lives fail to utter the very simple two syllables.
I also find it repulsive to these people who earn what they desire or just receiving something that helped them in any ways but have no common sense of saying it, let alone trying to pay the debt as a symbolic gesture.
I always admire the wests, and also the Japanese, in some ways because most of them, they breath the word 'thank you' like its almost the air they 'exhale' after they 'inhale' kind deed from other people.
This habit of saying thank you is what I think a humble human being should have in their core, as their base, in whatever way they wish to express it.
Sadly, this is not common from where I belong, literally and definitely, figuratively.