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I Stopped Saying "Thank You" to my Parents

I was thinking about someone whom I stop thanking with. Honestly, my parents are the persons I forgot to thank. I was thinking that no matter how my parents did good things for me as much as others do, I intend to stop to say ”Thank You” to them.

        I just realized on how foolish I am by not thanking my parents, my own flesh and blood. It’s really that ironic that I was able to gratify other people yet I haven’t to my parents. The thought that came into my mind is that I was able to stop thanking them because of some reasons like I am just ashamed to do so, afraid that I won’t get any response from them and a feeling of awkwardness might happen.

        Not that I am not proud of my parents, not that I was not raised very well by them and not that I haven’t even said “Thank you to them ever since. It’s just that I have no guts to say these two magical words, “Thank You”, to them.  Honestly, the only time that I can only thank them is that when there’s an activity at school like Tribute to Parents, Parent-Child Activity and the like and the sad thing about it was that I can only thank them through letters. But deep inside me, I want to thank them personally yet my mouth cannot speak. And one thing that I am sure of is that I am not that brave enough to do even a simple thing for my own parents.

        From this point, I just realized what a mean daughter and person I am. I dared to thank other people yet I even cannot thank my own parents. A feeling of regret arouse within me. Deep inside, I want to shout to the whole world how thankful and grateful I am to my parents for making each second of my life meaningful but I just couldn’t do it. I just learned that special persons like them deserve to be thankful with. It’s never too late to change and I can prove to myself that I can say “Thank You” to my parents again at the right place and at the right time and I believe about the song, “Some days stay gold forever…”