I am grateful to experience the sense of gratitude.

Gratitude is a sensation before it is an idea. It has a location, somewhere behind the sternum, a slight loosening, and it arrives unsummoned at a red light or while watching someone's kid run.

Not everyone has easy access to it. There are seasons when the feeling goes flat and the words stay true but stop landing. If yours is working today, that is not nothing.

It is a capacity, like an ear for music, and like an ear it sharpens with use. People who feel it most often are not luckier. They have had more practice noticing.