Being grateful is an attitude and it ranges from saying 'thank you' when receiving a gift...to a deeper sense of thankfulness for life, looking at life through gratitude glasses - considering everything good or bad in life as a potential gift.

Gratitude is the -

• affirmation of good things in our life existing alongside problems, challenges, & issues. Plus,
• acknowledgement or recognition of the sources of this goodness...where does that goodness come from.

Journaling about everything good happening to us is just the beginning... the first step towards making gratitude a way of life.

Less grateful people -

• don't get life satisfaction because they can't focus on what life is offering.
• They focus more on resentment...what they are losing out on (scarcity mindset), and life feels like a burden to them.

Grateful people do get the feeling of injustice, of being deprived...but on the whole they focus more on the good.

It's easier to find less grateful people than ungrateful people because reciprocity... reciprocating with a good deed for something good received... is the general norm, & being called 'ungrateful' is felt as an insult.