There are times when you should have sent out thank you cards but you may have forgotten. I have done this, and I always feel bad about it for a long time. In fact, every time I see the people I should have thanked with a card, I feel nervous and bad that I didn’t take the time do to what I should have done. The art of saying thanks is something that has slowly died in our society, and I think it’s time that we all remember how important it is and to practice doing it more often. I know that is one of the things I am working on in my life right now.
Thank you cards can be quick and easy, which makes it harder for me to believe that I haven’t taken the time to do them like I should. I feel especially bad that half of the people that came to my wedding never got their thank you cards, even though that time, it was definitely not my fault. Well, at least not entirely. I had my cards done and sitting on my bookshelf. When it came time to mail them, I thought pile looked a little light, but I didn’t think about it too hard. I took the thank you cards to the post office and mailed them off.
A year later we moved. When we moved the bookcase where I had the cards sitting, I found out why the pile had seemed a little light. Half of the thank you cards from my wedding had fallen behind the bookshelf where I couldn’t see them. I’m not the world’s most thorough cleaner, so they lay there undetected for a year. By this time it was too late to mail the rest of the thank you cards out, though in retrospect, I should have mailed them anyway, and included an explanation about why they were so late.
That is the past, however, and I have learned to be more careful about getting my thank you cards out in a timely manner. If I forget to mail one out, I make sure I get it done no matter how much time has lapsed. It is always better to send thank you cards out late rather than never at all. I have gotten a stack of them together to keep in my closet so that I know I have them whenever I may need to send one out.
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