If you ask me, gratitude is a conscious decision. It's a choice you make wherein you look at what you have and focus on the good things, the good circumstances around you. You make a concerted effort to think about things for which you can be grateful.
It is more natural to notice the short-comings. "Painful stimuli" call out loudly prompting us to avoid, change, divert, move… Often, we let the painful drown out the good around us.
By stopping and taking appraisal of what is around us, we can, for a short period of time at least, bask in the good. We can see that we are out of the quicksand, at least. Though things could be better, they also could be worse, and that the are not is cause to be grateful.
Having an attitude of gratitude is something you should practice. Thinking about those things for which you can be grateful is something you should intentionally do, and do so often.
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