Happy Friday to you all. It's that day for posting on any topic of your choosing, so long as it comes within our community guidelines.
I'd like to start my contribution by offering a warm welcome if you've just come to this community and I hope you'll find what you are looking for here. Or, if not, post and tell us what topics you'd like to discuss!
I'm thinking about the upcoming first (in UK), National Thank You day that's happening this Sunday (4th July), and I wonder what your views are on it?
I'm not sure what I feel about it to be honest. I tend to be quite effusive about saying 'thank you' at the time someone needs to be thanked, and I do also join in with those conventional 'thanks' that society asks of us too. Like routinely thanking my bus driver for depositing me at my journey's destination, even if his/her driving was erratic and I've been thrown all over the bus when he or she has braked heavily, or clipped a curb. By the same token though I make sure I contact the bus company too, if a driver has gone the extra mile to be helpful and pleasant.
What are your views? Do you think it dilutes the whole experience of saying 'thanks' if you do it generally on a special day set aside for the purpose, or should it be unnecessary because we should be thanking people on an individual basis?
To finish, there's another celebration happening on Sunday in USA. A much older and very valued one - Independence Day. Independence and the opportunity to choose the way in which your country is run, by people you have chosen to do so, is a really important freedom and one which, for some, remains only an ideal.
Wishing all our members and readers across 'the pond', a very happy and memorable Independence Day. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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