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Are you a grateful person?
So PC this is a thread about being grateful as the title suggests! Do you think you are grateful enough to those people around you? If so, how grateful you are? Is there anything else you are grateful at? What's your thoughts over ungrateful people?
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I make sure to always know my place. To remind myself, everything I have, is because of someone else for the most part. And I must be grateful towards every one of those people, and thank them each time they continue to contribute to my life. Not being grateful makes me feel like a horrible, arrogant person.
What I do often is I break down all the things I have, and look at them in amazement. I think about how the internet exists, how my devices exist, and how I exist the way I do. And I am grateful to those humans in the past to struggled to get me to this point. Even though I'm a really cynical and generally negative person, I never try to lose my wonder and amazement of this world. That's what allows me to keep being so grateful. Not taking anything for granted. Of course, sometimes it's hard to express this gratefulness. For instance, I'm grateful to my parents for providing me with sustenance and a place to live, but they are grating people to my existence in general. So I don't express it much because of how angry they make me. Also, I don't really care if anyone else is ungrateful and have mostly neutral feelings towards them. (Unless I personally worked on something really hard for them and they just spat in my face, but even then, that makes me more sad than hateful) What matters is that I am so that I can be a good person. |
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My approach at the ungrateful people are a lot different from you. It can be argued that I have a bitter side? I don't know, I just hate it when people are being so ungrateful in many ways, regardless I'm related to what they are being ungrateful of. Having said that, I don't think it's necessary to openly thank people here and there (see following response to flight). Quote:
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I think recently I've become a lot more grateful and cherishing for what I've got. I still struggle with demonstrating gratitude verbally - I tend to say it a little jokingly in order to take away the sappy tone of it all - which some people may not like. But, in my mind, I am very grateful, and understand that I am privileged in certain aspects of life. I am also very grateful for the love I've got from friends and family, and try to give back as much as I receive. :)
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Definitely, I'm very grateful for the friends I have and for me family. Things get rough but I'm grateful for what I do have, I think about it and makes me feel a bit better.
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I sure am. I try not take anything for granted and while that might be impossible for anyone to truly do, I'm appreciative of the stuff I have. I recognise that not everyone has the same stuff or opportunities as me. I'm lucky.
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Not particularly, if I'm honest about it. I often overlook the good things in my life because they are vastly outweighed by the bad, and I'm far too busy focusing on and trying (and failing) to correct those things. I'm a pessimist. I focus on the negative.
I wouldn't say I was ungrateful persay - I don't really take things for granted, because I'm constantly expecting them to go sour in some way - but I'm not as grateful for the few good things in my life as I probably should be, or to the people around me. I'm self-absorbed. So what? Someone has to look out for me; nobody else will put me first. Sometimes...alright, a lot of the time, I'm not as attentive as I could be, or probably should be. I doubt I'm alone in that, though. As for expressing gratitude...I'm not brilliant at that. It usually sounds insincere if I try and express it, so I just don't. I try and show it through other ways - paying particular attention to people when they speak to me, doing small things around the house to make life easier, etc. I just try and make sure I give a little, rather than just endlessly take because, y'know, give and take. The people who actually matter will pick up on that and will know it's my way of showing appreciation. The people who don't won't, and I'm not going to waste time or energy on people who do things for me just because they want gratitude. So. It all works out. I guess. |
I like to think I'm relatively grateful. I have my momentary lapses like anyone, but overall I try to appreciate what and who I have.
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I never understood the saying "that you'll be more grateful for what you have when you get older" when I was younger, and now I'm 21 I don't take a lot of things for granted anymore. The fear of losing things that I;m incredibly thankful can't really just be ignore anymore.
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