What deserves more gratitude?

There is generally good awareness on the importance of gratitude tracking and how that improves mental health. There is a tendency to make gratitude noting as a mega milestone kind of event like, child birth, exams, promotion, and more recently, what is trending also is daily micro gratitude practices, where listing down top 5 things to be grateful about. While being grateful for the good things, we need to be grateful also for life and its uncertainties.

This uncertainty can manifest in just the random fun that comes our way, a fun conversation, an insight we read and enjoy, doing something silly with our kids, having an absolute pointless debate which becomes a great memory to laugh about later.

On the negative side, uncertainty generally induces anxiety, but even if something bad could should or would happen, living that experience is something we need gratitude for. There is this stoic mantra Amor Fati, which means love your fate, Experiencing life as a story, through a protagonist pov, is an active part of the living experience - and this uncertainty is what keeps the story interesting. Whether you live with drive and intentionality or leave yourself to be ruddered by fate taking the attitude of embracing what is going to happen can be a crazy calming part of life.

So aside from being grateful for the good things in life, I am also grateful for the uncertainties, for what good is life with spoilers where you know how its gonna end!