IMPORTANCE OF GRATITUDE IN LIFE

Right through our life we have unbound obligations to many, starting with our parents, brothers and sisters, elders, all our teachers and countless number of humans. These obligations cannot be settled in our life time in real terms. However, the culture and education earned by man learned to settle all these obligations with gratitude. Anything of any value can be satisfactorily paid back with timely and proper gratitude. Gratitude is a precious repayment for any debt in the world.

"Gratitude is the greatest of all virtues but the parent of all others."  (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

This quote about gratitude by Marcus Tullius Cicero who was the Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic is one of the most apt depiction for this good word.

In fact lack of gratitude to the right person at the right time turn into a curse with high destructive strength. On the other hand gratitude is powerful weapon that can get us back all that we have lost like friendship, love, home and even the country. We are most obliged to our teachers and bound to provide gratitude to them who made us to stand erect anywhere in the world with the knowledge we have now. In fact it is unfathomably personal and subjective emotion. A timely expression of joy over a performance of someone may lift them to the height of the mountains.

Using a simple word at the right time with right expression and at the right person that can create a positive vibe is the word gratitude. It stimulates positive emotions in any person. It can also energies relationship and elevate healthy behaviours and above all helps to lead a joyful life. If we abridge these to say it is a magical and humble word that make any hard heart into soft and obligatory one. Anyone who practice gratitude regularly and made part of their lives, get calm their nerves system and move out of their stress levels and they may have improved emotional regulation.

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years in death row in prison, under the judgement against a crime which he has never committed. And finally when it was proved that it was a fabricated charge, he was released from the prison.. After coming out Hinton publically expressed forgiveness to the one who trapped him. Many people from around the world saluted him with wet eyes for that great act of gratitude. It may be now part of history. Hinton was an American activist writer and author who was wrongly punished in 1985 for the murder of two fastfood restaurant managers. If we go through the history we may come across with unfathomably sentimental cases of real gratitude.

K V George