Happiness

Happiness cannot be pursued; It must be produced.

If you feel negative more often than you feel positive and if your negativities arise faster and last longer than your positivities; you are simply a normal human-being.

Same applies to any other positive attribute; we must put in effort to produce it because negativity is the default state of nature which means the default state of our existence, because negativity is intended to be protective. In order to reach positivity and happiness, we must first face up to, identify, and resolve our negativities. Once we have resolved and eliminated negativity, we can then strive to produce positivity, and experience longer lasting frequencies of happiness.

This is why untimely gratitude can actually be limiting, because it fallaciously gives us comfort for what we have, as it prevents facing difficult challenges that need improvement.