Why don’t I appreciate what I have? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Annalisa Barbieri

Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

Well, why don't you, you ungrateful wretch?

Appreciation seems such a half-hearted emotion, the sort of declaration you'd expect to see on a barrel-scraping greeting card: "I appreciate you." Which would be a good card to send, when that's the best that can be said. Appreciation is the anaemic, weakling cousin to the chest-bursting emotions of love and anger. Appreciation never moved mountains, and no one ever cried into their pillow listening to a song about appreciation.

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