Can you say thank you?

hi gothicana i like to celebrate my birthday for my enjoyment and to for gifts so i would like to suggest please dont do like this celebrate birthday for yourself and not for others,this is different thing if you wanna invite some friends of your you can do that,and it is not very hard to say thank you!!! again i would like to suggest you please learn to say these word if do not say for ex-thank you,sorry,and no these three words can save you..........or helps you for happy life .....i will tell about myself it was very hard for me to say no to anyone. even in the office i was doing others work after completing mine but now i learn to say no so i need not to do others work and i am going early to home.....

I don't like celebrating birthdays. We're the same, Its really hard for me to say thank you to my families. I'd rather not having a party or accepting gifts from them than saying thank you. It's not that I don't like it, I just couldn't say it how much I appreciate their time and effort just for my birthday. I can't even show How happy I am...

Hi. Gothicana. It is not hard for me to say thank you to anyone. It does not matter how I feel about the gift that they have given to me too. I love celebrating my birthday but no one ever celebrates my birthday for me at all. Not since I was a little girl though. That was very nice of your dad to give your husband a birthday gift. Happy Belated birthday to your husband! I am also wishing you a Happy Birthday as well too!

I don't celebrate much myself when it comes to my birthday but will go all out to celebrate other people birthdays. When it comes to me I guess I am just not use to people giving me gifts and feel a bit shy and or embarrassed. I think Gothicana, that perhaps with all that you have been through lately that a celebration with your close family will do some good and even if you tell them in advance that you want to celebrate life and not gifts and or birthday, where you can all simply get together and enjoy each's company and have some family quality time. Some day all of us will not be here any longer so we have to enjoy time together as much as we can. This way there is nothing to say thank you for but more like I love you all. This way the I love you comes from the bottom of your heart and full sincerity.

It's not hard for me to say "Thank you" or "I'm sorry" but for personal reasons it is hard for me to say those words and mean them. Normally if I am sorry I will say "Apologies" or if I am thankful for something I will say "Much appreciated" it has had me to deal with the words that I normally don't feel comfortable saying or meaning. I have also found if I'm writing it I can say it and mean it though so maybe you can enjoy your birthday and write your "thanks"

I haven't ever celebrated or been celebrated my birthday, so i don't really know it. I just know that when someone give me a gift, from the heart, I will say thank to he/she. But this is my problem. I always do this with every people but my family. I don't know why. Maybe what they do is too normal, they are always very kind to me. I should change this bad habit because I can say thanks to everyone, why not my family, they are all the things I have if someday I lose every thing.

I have found that saying Thank You is very easy for me now but is was difficult to start the practice. Before I would try to turn down the complement or gift saying it was not necessary. Then I decided to just say thank you when people give me complement or gift. The simple this is often the best.

gothicana yes I sure can as I was raised to say p lease and thank you as people were in the twenties and thirities. now days lot of people are not raised to say thank you or even please which is sad. I always thank people for gifts even if I truly do not like them. They thought of m e and thats why I thank them. It does not cost one red cent and makes me' feel good too.,I was raised to do this so it has become second nature.

It's not like I don't want birthday celebration it's just that I don't feel like celebrating my own birthday. I do feel quite embarrassed when someone's giving me a gift but I never forget saying thank you on them.

Nice discussion friend. I very rarely celebrates my birthday and i know that when any one give me my birthday gift its very hard to say thank you to anyone. But they give us very big gift with love so we have to say thank you to them. I