Lately, “think pink”, or otherwise to think positively, is the new behavior of the post-Covid era. This means staying optimistic and whatever negative happens to you, face it calmly and with positive energy. In other words, to see the glass half full and not half empty.
In this general climate of euphoria, a new trend has developed, that of gratitude. In fact, it has evolved so much that there are special “gratitude diaries” on the market, in which you record every day why you are grateful.
So I wondered, a lot of things: Who needs such a notebook? What does this help? At first I thought, maybe it’s a kind of exercise to boost your psychology and confidence. And yes, that’s a good idea.
Often, when something bad happens to us, we think or are told that there are worse, in order to feel better. Basically, this is a numerical equation, which shows you that if there are worse, then you are in a better position and therefore, you should be grateful for that.
Is it a matter of tactical or moral virtue?
Really, if you think about it that way, surely a weight will go away from you. And you will really feel grateful that you are not the worst. But does great gratitude matter to us? Doesn’t that make us so grateful all the time? And finally, where does this theory come from?
It certainly has to do with Christian morality, which recognizes gratitude as one of the supreme virtues and, conversely, ignorance as a grave sin. But in general, gratitude is enshrined in our culture as good behavior. A grateful person recognizes both good and bad things and can more easily appreciate that something positive is happening to him. After all, it is scientifically proven that people, who are more empathetic and recognize and accept positive things more easily, are less anxious and happier, as their brain releases greater amounts of dopamine and serotonin.
Especially at this time, when people are experiencing stress for almost everything, as the uncertainty of the modern age creates insecurity and instability, this tactic of gratitude can be the new anxiolytic.
This is exactly what academic Andre Spicer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Bayes Business School of London, claims. New self-improvement practices that are so in vogue and so easily promised that everything will go well, actually use gratitude as a means to believe in yourself and your abilities, to regain your lost self-confidence and finally to lead you on the path of success. One could say that they use his gratitude that you simply exist in the world, as a sign that you can succeed in it.
Still others believe that gratitude is purely a matter of psychological processes, as we are programmed to give a greater basis to the negative than to the positive. And this is mainly due to the fact that negative situations affect us more, precisely because we tend to take the positive for granted. Can gratitude be toxic?
However, I wonder why we should beautify everything? Why do we have to constantly give ourselves positive feedback, even when everything sucks?
Why, for example, is it forbidden to be sad, to feel bad, to be sad? True, many times you have to be really upset and stressed, because that’s the way life is. Not everything is perfect. There are times when you have to feel pain, failure, insecurity. You have to live your negative experiences as well as your positive ones. Because only from the dark side will you appreciate the bright side of life.
Think of it as a boost to go further. Because if you feel grateful for everything, then you will not be able to correct everything that goes back, that bothers you and hurts you. Think that, in exercising gratitude in such an exaggerated way, you are essentially giving an alibi to all that initially brought you to this position, of thinking how grateful you are, because there are simply worse.
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