Gratitude isn’t a personality type. It’s a skill you practice like free throws.

People talk about grateful as though it were a temperament you either got or did not. It behaves much more like a movement you repeat until it stops requiring thought. Nobody is naturally good at noticing what is going right, because attention runs toward problems by default. What looks like a sunny nature is usually just a lot of reps.

Give it a form, since a vague intention will not survive a bad week. Three things at the same time each day, or one text a week to somebody who helped. Do it when you do not feel it, which is the whole point of practice.