Gratitude practice. Why bother?

Martha called. The conversation went on like that:

– So, you’re delving into wellness trends mr. guru?

– Desperate times.

– Midlife crisis hitting hard?

– I guess.

– So what is that you doin’?

– Gratitude practice.

– Ha-ha.

– They say gratitude is the simplest way to a better life.

– Oh really? Who says so?

– I dunno, some gratitude gurus I found online. But it’s backed by science too.

– Yea? What does science say?

– Science says, write three sentences a day over two weeks, and this is what you get: “a better life”. You see what you’ve got.

– Five minutes a day to happiness? C’mon, too good to be true.

– Listen, look it up in Google scholar, tons of people tested it. All over the world. Wrote three sentences a day over two weeks. Good stuff comes out. Life feels better.

– What’s there to be grateful for? Headaches?

– Up to you. Anything. Grateful the weather is decent. That the sun made an appearance. Grateful for Wi-fi.

– Ah-huh, grateful-for-a-sunny-day wellness mumbo-jumbo. Is that a piramid scheme? Who’s mr. Sunshine on top?

– I am telling you, it’s science. You train yourself in finding things that make your day suck less. Grateful folks are good at finding things that made their day suck less.

– So, they think, “could’ve been worse – I could’ve died that day, but didn’t“?

– Something like that.

– Y’know, maybe there is something to it. Maybe writing you’re grateful for bluetooth and satnav is going to turn you into a master, mr. yoda.

Gratitude:

Grateful for a loyal dog.

Grateful Emil greeted me like I had been gone for months.

“Write daily entries.“

„Thank yourself.”

Consistency level up.