The Good Burden of Being Grateful
4 min readNov 25, 2021
Let us be the ones who are grateful for what we have;
who waste no thought on what we don’t need.
A staggering number of moral philosophers have positioned gratitude as the foundation of goodness, placing it as a prerequisite to things like tolerance, love, forgiveness, generosity, and all the things we universally think of as “good.”