Gratitude is a divine virtue. When anybody helps us knowingly or unknowingly we should exhibit gratitude to him/her. Because to help anybody is again a very great virtue of life which can not be acquired by everybody because it is not that easy to help anybody unless you are intended to explore that noble human characteristic within your inner sense.
Actually, in this transient world/society, we require help at any point of time of our requirement. We can not say that everybody seeks help from anybody or we can not say that without the help one can not sustain. But the situation, the moment, the time at certain juncture of life force us to seek help from others which nobody can deny. Suppose we are going in a vehicle alone or with family members suddenly we met with an accident and we lost our sense. At that time any passerby who has a noble heart, comes for our help. We always say that god helps us at the critical time. How does god help us? He ignites the human value in any human being’s heart and mind and that person or people wholeheartedly help us. Now tell me, we may be very rich, affluent persons, but in a place where we are critically injured through an accident, how can we hope the chances of survival unless anybody helps us! So at that moment if we did not get help, we might have lost our life instantaneously. So the person(s) who help(s) us definitely act as a form of god.
In many cases it has been found when people help, the life of other person(s) get saved. So in turn as a human being we should exhibit gratitude to that person who saved our life because as a human being our conscience says exhibit gratitude who help you at the time of need. So that the supreme power that has created us get solaces that you are a true human being. When you exhibit gratitude, you feel divine peace in your mind and heart. Also reciprocation is another divine virtue of human nature. So when we get help from others it should be our first priority to be grateful in the form of reciprocation to those persons who help us wholeheartedly.
I have read about a real incident story of an wild life photographer in Africa where he rescued a three/four months old baby lion while it was drowning in the flood water of a river. When he rescued the baby lion and swam across to reach the brink of the river, he was surprised to see four lionesses and a male lion standing there and watching him. He was frightened to see five matured lion family members and feared perhaps they would attack him. But in surprise they acknowledged his help of rescuing their baby lion although they were predators. They did not harm him and reciprocated gratitude by touching his shoulder. The most surprising fact is that one by one all the five matured lion family members touched his shoulder and at last the baby lion also kissed his head in gratitude before he went with his family members. After many years, the same baby lion which has grown to as a mature lion many times met that photographer in the wild and did not harm him because although the baby lion has grown up as a matured lion but still he remembers how that person had saved his life when the lion cub was drowning in the strong flood current water.
It is not a story, it is a true incident which prove that even an predator can exhibit gratitude to his human rescuer. But in our real life it has been observed that many people after getting help forget that person who had helped him. They even never exhibit gratitude towards the person who had helped him. They never acknowledge gratefulness towards him.
But if a predator lion club or its whole family members who does not possess that strong cognizant power like human beings, able to reciprocate by their humble gratitude, being the most powerful species in this world, why can not we exhibit gratitude to the helping persons! Hence, all we human being must acknowledge the helping persons importance in our life and remain grateful to them till our last breath as a token of gratitude.
