The value of today among every day

I try to be grateful each day and tell myself that the most important time I have now is right now. I think that’s absolutely and undeniably true.

But how can every single day be just grateful? What is the value of today being grateful if every day is grateful?

I imagine a scenario where I’m terminally ill. I can die either tomorrow or 6 months later, and I will never know exactly when that would be. I have never encountered such scenario in real life, so I can only guess with the help of movies and books that that is probably when I would be the most earnest in really practicing gratitude every single day.

Maybe I’m not that desperate yet to really be grateful each day. How entitled that sounds.

What is it like to live on the gratitude side of the spectrum instead of misery and stay there every day with all your strength when you still feel dissatisfied, angry, and even wronged?

I don’t want to wait to find out until a tragedy comes around to answer for me.