Thankfulness is relative thing.

I want to explain that thankfulness is relative thing and it means we can create the emotion by our inner efforts.

Why is thankfulness relative and comparative?

Because the emotion can be changed and depends on our standards that we choose.

For example, a textbook can make us grateful if we focus on children who can’t have compulsory education in a developing country and it can’t make us grateful if we focus on the environment that everyone can be educated as a matter of course.

It means thankfulness is not spontaneous and absolute. 

We may not need to think about the inner standards if we are in a favorable situation. However, difficult situations sometimes help us have useless emotions like jealousy, hurry, grudge , despair , suicidal thoughts and so on, then we perhaps should make efforts to change the standards in order to make us thankful. (Thankfulness is always useful emotion because the emotion help us contribute to our social environments.)

Thank you for reading!!