Thanks, but No Thanks...

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you..."
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)


But we’re not dogs, we were not starving.
And we prospered through hard work by our very own pair of hands.


You’ve guessed it.
Today, we shall talk about gratitude.

Such a misused word, oftentimes misunderstood.


There should be times when we needed someone to keep the doors of the elevators open just so we could get out with all our bags or stuff that we need to carry home.
"Thank you" would not be such a difficult thing to say.

There should be instances when we could use an extra pair of hands & were fortunate enough that someone was there to stretch out theirs.
To these kind-hearted people, we wish them the best in all their future undertakings.

There are times also that we are going through very important days of our lives & the people who matter to us would take the extra effort to make sure the occasion works our perfectly.
No matter how they would say otherwise, we would feel to be greatly in their debt.

There are times when things look bleak, the options unclear, the road seemed dark & uncertain, people have helped us pull through the toughest moments of our lives.
To these folks, the words "Thank You" would be an understatement.
Chances are, we would even cherish these people for the rest of our lives.


However, there are also those who, in the name of having done something or with the thought that they had, misuse the word gratitude.


For instance;
It’s ridiculous that the people who once helped us feel that we shall be so indebted that we would lose our souls to them, to the extend of going against our very will & do things out of gratitude even if it means there won’t be anything beneficial to expect from that action.

It’s also unacceptable that people who have spent a chunk of their lives with us expect that we will forever be committed to them out of being grateful, not taking into consideration that the days to come would actually spell more hurt, anguish, pain & disaster.

And it’s totally outright outrageously stupid for an employer to even have an inkling of a feeling that the staff of his company should be eternally grateful to their employment to be able to afford their livelihood or for having better or more lavish options or appear to have increased their purchasing power, not even thinking that for a fact, the time & effort put into making a living by the staff, all the sacrifices made in the name of that job & to add salt to the wound, the people in the company resemble animals in a safari, habitants of old folks homes or even patients in the mental asylum to be working with in the first place!

Hello, boss.
We’re paid for our work-lah, you think it’s charity ah?
Maybe you will feel you’re the biggest philanthropist in your donkey world, since you have a habit of doing so much charity by collecting stubborn, "I was here first", out-dated, old-fashioned & otherwise-unemployable-elsewhere senile citizens who keep extending their "post-mandatory retirement age employment contracts" & keep sinking their shrivelled hands annually into the bonuses which are so rightfully earned by others.
So redundant are these people that you even create unnecessary positions that would not even exist in companies which run on a minute scale of common sense.
W.T.F.?


This entry is by no means an attempt to undermine the virtue of being grateful, for gratitude is the mother of all virtues worth respecting.
I certainly do not wish to be misunderstood as a "B.U.L.B. – Blardy Ungrateful Little B*stard"...


But some people just have got to be told off at their faces.
Thanks, sorry but f*ck you!