Author's Note: When Thanksgiving comes around, most people write their essays on what they are thankful for. But I know what I'm thankful for, so I decided to write an essay on what exactly being "thankful" means.
A husband takes a bag from his grocery-laden wife. She smiles and says "thank you." Meanwhile, across the globe, an old man lays on his death bed. He grabs the hand of his best friend and just manages to get out "thank you" with his last breath. The same words are used, but the meaning is different by a landslide. The word "thanks" has many different meanings and emotional depths.
"Thanks" can just be a polite thing to say when someone passes you the potatoes. It could also mean that you simply appreciate something, you are thankful that your parents bought you a brand new pair of shoes. The meaning of this small word could mean something a lot deeper as well. It could be used by a man to express his incredible gratitude to a fireman that rescued his daughter from a burning house.
Thanks could mean as little as a bag of groceries, or as much as a lifetime of friendship. We have and we will say thank you many times throughout our lives, and some of those times we will wish that we have another word to say. Though, we wish we can pay back the favor, sometimes we can't. Thanks will just have to do.
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