Gratitude isn’t a mood. It’s a survival mechanism.
Not some self-care fluff about “raising your vibration.”
It’s a mental override.
When the tribe was starving, gratitude said: Use what’s left. Keep moving.
Complainers died. Survivors adapted.
The Stoics got it. Marcus Aurelius wrote on gratitude while Rome was collapsing.
Not to feel good, but to stay sane.
Gratitude isn’t delusion. It’s direction.
A filter. A stance. A refusal to be broken.
I’ve seen it in people who buried children, lost everything.
They didn’t say “it’s okay.”
They said: It’s not okay, but I’m still here.
That’s gratitude.
Not comfort, resistance.
Because here’s what no one tells you:
If you don’t train gratitude, you drift into entitlement.
And entitlement is emotional suicide dressed as self-worth.
The system prefers you that way: numb, bitter, easy to sell to.
So pick:
1) Be a hungry node in the matrix, waiting for “better days.”
2) Or master the deeper game: see leverage where others see lack.
#Gratitude isn’t soft. It’s discipline.
Dangerous, subversive, and chosen.
GM #Nostr
