You don’t have to spend anything if you appreciate the people around you, even for a tiny job. In fact, it works wonders sometimes, even more than the remuneration we give! If you make it a habit of appreciating people around you, you are definitely the most practical and successful person in the world. For example, if a child gets attention and appreciation of his parents, he progresses more than a child, who is often rebuked, for whatever good or bad he does. And thus, they loose interest in life.

You will not introspect this for this drawback of yours. Rather, you will blame him or her for being negligent. Imagine this! Women of all ages are often eager to hear a word of appreciation, especially in the family matters. If an old lady is colouring her hair, she is doing that to look better, with a desire to be appreciated by her husband. When a young wife dresses herself, she does that with a motto to hear from her husband: “Wow! How beautiful you look in this dress!”. Well, her life becomes meaningful. Instead the man after finishing his routine, turning his face sideways, sleep peacefully.

If this is repeated again and again, it brings premature old age for the lady. Even if you disagree at a particular point, instead of shouting at her, you can very calmly and lovingly tell her that this is not the way to do so. If you don’t understand this simple rule, you are definitely reaching towards a marriage break sooner or later. We may criticize the western world for its mechanical relationships, but one has always to keep in mind their gestures, etiquettes of saying thank-you and sorry. If we lack these manners, we have to start inculcating them in our lives sooner. They say that good manners belong to everyday, despite their caste, creed, sect, religion or nationality.

I remember a folk tale, which I would like to share with you. A farmer’s wife one day served dry grass to the men folk of the family. When they sat for the dinner, they were indeed very surprised to see the peculiar dish and started rebuking the lady. Well, she very calmly told them that for the past many years, I had been serving you sumptuous food of all varieties, but you never had a word of appreciations for my preparations. Today I have done so deliberately, so that the taste of good food for which I was longing, for a word of appreciation by you people can be recalled. It is time for realization that the lady was toiling all along to maintain the household without any expectation or reward. There must be some science in the background of this tradition! Try to unfold that, try to appreciate your wife once a day for her hard work and see the fruitful results in your life.
Listen my dear! You would surely get to know the real meaning of heaven for this gesture of yours.