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          "No One Stops to Say Thank You Anymore" by L.A. Wilson is an interesting article that it has a great impact towards the reader. I'm sure that most of us agree in the author's perception about today's youth behavior. His point of view is very much related with mine. Nowadays, people don't acknowledge a person doing good deeds anymore. We tend to forget appreciating simple things that has been done favorable to us. Well, we can't blame anyone since we are not obliged to do it. But come to think of it, saying thank you to people every time is a way of showing him that you appreciate what he did. And you know exactly how it feels to be appreciated. It feels very heartwarming yet we do not say such words. Maybe because we're not fund of saying it or we simply forget to say so or we're not just taught when we're still young. We can't also blame the teenagers for not being a well mannered person since they're just imitating everything that they see growing up. Their pure and young minds doesn't hesitate to assimilate things and obviously in that early stage they still can't differentiate what's right from wrong. So whose fault is it? Is it the child? Or the one who's responsible for the child's proper foundation of good manners or what we called parents?? Parents is our very first teacher. And we are first taught in our home. But sometimes the case is like this, they don't taught us those inappropriate ones yet we see it in their own actions by our own two eyes. And we unknowingly applied it that easy until it becomes our attitude. So it's a matter of a proper foundation.
          And as a matured one, we should act accordingly. We should serve as models for the young ones so that they can imitate good example as they grow. Who knows? It can be the solution for this case. It might not end the problem that quick but through time and process, step by step, we might see a world with a generation proper raised and well mannered in the future.
          Boldly and powerfully, I believe and agree to L.A. Wilson's message in this article. Manners bridges us to the people around us. Everything we do has a price. What we do has a reflection just like what we see in a mirror. It always has consequences that awaits. We are connected and accountable to each other. And this connection serves as the way we should act.
          I can now say that this writing made me to think not just twice but many times of how I should act and behave. And that things is not all about me and it does not focused on me. It made me realize to start an act to prevent a world to become a world of people who think only about themselves. And indeed, it moved me.