Gratitude is the capacity to recognize benefit, beauty, contribution and support without requiring life to be uncomplicated first.
Gratitude is the capacity to recognize benefit, beauty, contribution and support without requiring life to be uncomplicated first.
Mature gratitude does not tell someone to be thankful instead of angry.
It does not turn suffering into a lesson before the suffering has even been acknowledged.
Gratitude expands perception.
Alongside what hurt, what also held?
Who helped?
What remains?
What arrived unexpectedly?
The answer does not cancel pain.
It simply prevents pain from becoming the only thing visible.