How do I express gratitude for others?

Speak words at them

>>17440489
Yes but how do I make the words?

>>17440495
With your brain and mouth, expressing what you're feeling.

>>17440485

Your post struck a chord with me. Is the problem insincerity? I too have trouble complimenting people, but for me, it's from growing up receiving very few, if any, sincere compliments myself, as well as having been depressed for so long that I don't have many positive or negative opinions on things anymore, which has combined to make it rather hard for me to identify complimentary features of people, and makes the idea of compliments and gratitude rather alien to me.

As an exercise I've been trying to give one genuine compliment a week, so perhaps try that?

>>17440495
>Yes but how do I make the words?

Find something you like about the person and tell them that you like that thing. In theory, that's how it works. I have trouble with this step as well, like I said above. If you also have trouble with it, well.... keep at it. I've had no luck so far, but maybe I will, and maybe you will, too.

tl;dr: if the problem is insincerity, then just pick a thing you like and say you like it. If you can't, try anyway, and maybe it'll eventually work!

>>17440485
Just keep it short and to the point and smile.