I have had a difficult relationship with Gratitude and saying Thank you in general. For starters, growing up in India, there was no expression like that in my mother tongue. I did not hear it at home or between friends of the family. It is not like we did not give or do things for one another, but there just was no expression of gratitude as such. It was only when I started to go to elementary school and began to learn English that I learned, among other words and terms, the