Why is Gratitude So Hard?

Or: what that rude punk Hamlet and anxious mess Macbeth taught me about suffering

Gratitude can be a very confronting thing to me - when I’m invited to look at my life and name the things that make me happy and focus them in my attention, I find myself instantly resisting. I then find myself amazed by this resistance - why would I ever resist the opportunity to feel at least a little better about my life? Why do I feel like it’s impo…