Happy Monday ka! I got a little yet touching story from an alumna who got Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship, administered by Fulbright. She has been even more proactive since she got back a few years ago.
We did a project to promote reading together. She started using, ‘Read it forward’ to share books with others. Now she has added the use of ‘Thank you note’, especially to those around in the university who have been overlooked to help her students have more caring while generating happy feelings to others.
One little thank-you project got many nice notes and may I translate several to English to share with you na ka.
- Thanks to ‘uncle security guard’ ลุงรปภ. (the way Thai younger kids address more senior people who don’t have ‘ranks’) for helping me store my bike outside and keeping my key for me when I forget. Many thanks for your caring and I wish you very healthy and that you are our loving uncle for years.
- Uncle ka, you’re so nice and fully responsible for your work. I’m impressed and thankful every time you help me lift my bike. Even I know it’s part of your job, I notice that you’re the only one guard who does his best!
- To ‘auntie housekeeper’: may I thank you and other aunties who work has allowed us to have clean classes. You all must be tired, keep going na ka. I won’t throw trash carelessly ka.
- Hope you enjoy doing your work on our university gardens ka. Wear lots of smiles too for every day of yours to be very happy na ka!
A student studying biology the past semester wrote to a laboratory staff to say thanks to him for not answering to her questions all the time because she realized that she had to make more efforts to search for the answers on her own too. This staff seems to be quite popular as kids put their thank-you cards with a box of milk for him!
Two main things popped up on my mind ka:
1. In the Thai context, we have to admit that we do have ‘socio-economic hierarchy’ and so we frequently fail to acknowledge and recognize the presence of many of them…(and us in some situations too!). This caring exercise needs to be promoted for our people, young and old alike to have respect to all, regardless of any status in the society lae ka.
2. The appreciation expressed would make them become more motivated to do their jobs even better while feeling more proud of their own responsibilities like the Pike Place fish market in Seattle ka.
Caring can go a long way for a gentler and kinder society ka!
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