Translations:Celebration and Mourning Circle/5/en

This suppression also extends to displays of celebration. Weʼre taught not to acknowledge or receive gratitude for our own actions and words. Weʼre told that thatʼs “selfish”, being “full of yourself”, or “egotistical”. We have participated in this suppression through shrinking from others expressions of gratitude to us; through saying words like, “itʼs nothing” (in other cultures: “de rien”, “de nada”); through withholding our own gratitude for ourselves, and through expressing it only as a brief afterthought to others (i.e “thanks”).