A highly successful writer friend told me recently that no colleague has bothered to comment on his work in years. Too busy, he says.
Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. P. M. Forni's Choosing Civility encourages people to take notice and acknowledge each other. Acknowledgment is the grease of human interaction, the root of civility. This is so basic. How can anybody NOT do this?
I believe there's plenty of attention being paid, though not nearly enough follow-through with acknowledgment and praise. Those who do not get often do not give.
There's no set amount of blessings in the world, no need to ration good feelings. Nice is not a pie with a finite number of slices. Please pay attention. This is important. It's better to give than to receive. Say something nice. What goes around quickly comes around.
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