Gratitude: A Value Towards Personal and Social Sustenance

Abstract

This study focuses on the value of ‘gratitude’ and aims at analysing the place gratitude holds for the contemporary youth. It aims at studying ‘gratitude’ in personal as well as social milieu, along with the degree to which this value is practiced in present times (amongst the youth). The manner and nature of this practice is also studied in this paper, alongside the semantic transition gratitude has undergone. For this purpose, a survey was conducted, in which a total of 22 subjects’ responses were collected. Participants were informed that their responses/personal details will be kept confidential. Responses collected were later on studied, and it was thereafter concluded that ‘gratitude’ as a value is still present amongst the youth of today. Its practice has become highly subjective in the contemporary times. Gratitude, as a value system, has taken different shapes over time, which leads to a change in its definition, nature, and degree of practice. It remains, nonetheless, a value still intact within the contemporary youth in various forms, though its practice could be enhanced.