Being grateful is not a fluctuating index.

Being grateful is not a fluctuating stock market index, it is a fixed value. Just because you know someone or yourself more today doesn’t mean you can stop being grateful to someone for how kindly they treated you yesterday. 

I don’t think people change. I think our opinions of people change or they grow with context and experiences which is quite fair and understandable. But it is important to equally remember how grateful you were for them in your life, and it is important to carry that gratefulness forward throughout that relationship whether it be your mother, your friend, your coworker, the shop keeper. It may even make their day for all you don’t know! Because your gratitude is like your integrity or bond with no expectations, with no reservations that is true gratitude, being grateful for who they were to you. 

This is a note to self as much as it is for anyone who reads this. I find myself forgetting to be grateful to/for the people around me.  Many of my relationships have started with thoughts of gratitude. My gratitude towards them was one of the first things I locked-in, I experienced in that relationship, and that gratitude cannot change in my mind simply because I know more about them now or I have changed. Being grateful is a constant carried, not a variable that is adjusted. All Praise to the Unknown.