Right from the moment we are born into this world of entanglement our relation with our maker is well set on the road of constant decline. The famous Romantic age poet William Wordsworth had once said that we are closest to our maker in our childhood. Somehow in course of time we entrap ourselves in such varied engagements that one doesn’t even find sufficient time to die let alone live. Our lives become interspersed with odd jobs at odd hours and without paying heed whatsoever to our body or its health we are all in caught in the “maddening crowd’s ignoble strife”. Our very existence starts revolving around various goals and accomplishing these is of prime importance for us. Our engagements with the worlds stretch to such an extent that our ties with our maker are loosened due to our own callousness. We are so caught up in the monotonous race that segregates the best from the rest that we even forget to offer our thanks to our maker.
We can partially attribute our failure to offer thanks and our indifference to the headstrongness and impetuosity of youthful days and partially to our time constraints which ultimately leads to our dissolving of our relation with the Almighty God.

The key to holistic living is only by following the route prescribed by Him; sooner or later we all are destined towards that one route. While some religions have a full fledged thanksgiving ceremony in praise of their maker others are more liberal in their outlook and do not follow any hard core thanks giving pattern. However it is ethically satisfying to begin your day with a small prayer offering your thanks to god in your own small way.

However it is not very important as to in which form a “thank you” finds its way to the heart of the doer, for it finding its way is more important. The only respite from a world threatened by extremism and fundamentalism lies in going back to the old world order of saying Thank You with a smile beginning your list with the name of your maker.