Expressing Gratitude: The Best Way to Ensure a Happy and Contented Life
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s day off
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Gratitude
Gratitude is an emotion expressing appreciation for what one has. It is a recognition of value independent of monetary worth. Spontaneously generated from within, it is an affirmation of goodness.
Research shows that people differ in the degree to which they are inclined to experience and express gratitude. As a result, gratitude is said to exist both as a temporary feeling and as a dispositional trait. In both cases, gratitude involves a process of recognizing, first, that one has obtained a positive outcome and, second, that there is an external source for that good outcome.