By MAMAMIA TEAM
So every so often at Mamamia, we run a thank you post.
We base it on a site called which is a website that was started by a US woman named Leah Dieterich. The website isn’t really running anymore but the premise is still awesome – it’s all about writing thank you notes to the people and the things you’re grateful for.
According to the website: “There’s always something to be thankful for. From the important things like Songs You’re Embarrassed to Like, and Heavy Eyelids that Tell You When You Need to Sleep, to friends and family, love and loneliness, light and darkness, Leah Dieterich sets out to acknowledge them all.”
Here’s an idea of what those thank you notes look like:
Today, we thought it was a good day to bring this post back.
So, we’re going to use this Open Post to say thank you. You may want to say thank you to a person, you may want to say it to a thing. It’s up to you.
Lucy’s going to share her thank you note first:
Dear lovely man at the Melbourne Airport Qantas counter,
Thank you for being so nice when I waltzed up to you on Monday morning and told you that I missed my flight for no reason other than my own stupidity.
If you were judging me, you didn’t make it obvious. And rather than hit me will a fee that was equivalent to my high level of embarrassment, you charged me only a little and put me on the next flight to Sydney.
Quite frankly, you’re a legend.
Lucy xxx
Your turn now. Who do you have to thank today? Write your thank you notes below.
This thank you post is sponsored by Post-it Super Sticky Notes. As we gather your thank-yous during the day, we’ll be creating a gallery of the messages of our own on Post-it Notes.
Top Comments
I just want to have a quick whinge about my annoying brain/heart:
I am lucky enough to be deeply in love with my perfect man, who thankfully feels the same way. I want to be with him forever, and I am grateful for him every day.
Why oh why then can't I stop wishing another, parallel-universe version of myself could be with my ex again? I never loved my ex as much as I love my bf, I wasn't as attracted to him, I wasn't even that into the relationship...I just really love him deeply as a person. I think maybe I miss his friendship, and the easy love and intimacy that we shared. Pathetic as it is, I also miss the way he loved me and looked at me. I know he thought I was The One, and I can see why he thought that - we were great together. I went overseas so we broke up and I came back with a boyfriend, so was never really able to wrap things up with my ex.
Please don't slam me with comments like "you obviously don't love your boyfriend!". I do. He is my dream. I am much happier with him than I would be with my ex, even though my ex is a beautiful person. This is just some annoying hangover of old love that I can't shake :( Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm in a good place right now. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Thanks to life. At this point in my life I have had enough ups and downs to recognize just how truly lucky I am. Life is so much better when one is appreciative.