The X-Factor of Life Is Gratitude
Gratitude is the most important ingredient of happiness.

Gratitude is the most important ingredient of happiness.
Voices sound around me, mentors and tormentors. The world comes at me. I duck under the comforter.
The only way we can begin to shift our lives, and to change the multiple short stories our lives are telling, is to begin doing the good things we want to do...even if badly. "Whatever you want to do or dream you can, begin it," Goethe. Just five minutes a day of it, if necessary.
Christ's example compels some to choose the path of voluntary downward mobility.