Why is gratitude and appreciation the answer? Because when you’re grateful and appreciative of your life, you’re in a positive frame of mind. When you’re in a positive frame of mind, you’re receptive to all the good that can come. Gratitude and appreciation only brings happiness, inner peace, and success, while pessimism only brings sadness and misery. When you’re appreciative of you, you’re only doing yourself a favor, and you don’t feel the exhaustion and sickness that pessimism brings. Danny G.