gratitude doesn't exist in a vacuum any more than love does. you love something or someone. you're grateful to something or someone. gratitude as an attitude, at least to me, implies a deity. it doesn't SAY a deity, the person feeling the gratitude may simply feel "lucky," but to express it as gratitude does beg an object. therefore i generally object to the concept of gratitude unless it's TO a specific someone.
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Ummm, what? I am both happy and grateful to be in this lovely place & time in my life....nothing to do with being "grateful" to some stupid sky gawd who had Nothing to do with anything in any positive way, either.
Well it does look like the child is praying, but I like the quote
I need to donate my horde of unused clothes.
why is it taking you so long?