What positive emotion do you feel most often?

It starts so subtly you don’t even notice.
One thought, one shadow, one heavy breath. And before you know it, something has taken over — hijacked your mind, blurred your sight. The world becomes flat, colorless. You can’t taste the sweetness of sugar in your tea, only the bitterness clawing at your tongue.

That was my life once.

I wore anger like a second skin. I spat at the sky, cursed God for being unfair, loved playing the victim because it gave me something to hold onto. If everything was against me, then I didn’t have to face myself. The grief gave me identity, the anger gave me fuel, the hate gave me armor. But none of it gave me peace.

But then, without warning, something shifted. Not an explosion. Not a breakdown. Just a quiet, almost unnoticeable shift — like a camera lens coming into focus. Suddenly, I could see differently. Feel differently. What I thought was missing had always been right here: the warmth of sunlight on my skin, the breath I never asked for but kept receiving, the small, stubborn beauty threaded through ordinary moments.

That’s when gratefulness arrived.

Not as a ritual or a checklist, but as a way of being. A different frequency to live on. A rebellion against bitter. A deeper truth humming beneath the noise.
And now? Gratefulness is the pulse under everything.
And yes — this is so true.

"Have you ever felt consumed by anger, grief, or hate — so much that the sweetness of life feels out of reach? What if the thing you think you’ve lost forever is quietly waiting to hijack you back into wonder?"

Love, Stefanie Anna

P.S.
We are so blinded by anger, grief, fear, and the patterns we grew up with that we can’t see clearly. The way we were raised. The way our parents spoke to us. The way the world taught us to survive instead of to feel. It all shapes how we live — until we let something to shift. That’s when we finally start seeing differently.