I don't need to make a list of 'things I'm grateful for today' to know what are the three or four things that matter to me, that make me happy. What would be the point of being grateful for them if, to be aware of them, I had to do journaling? I'd be pretty screwed. I wouldn't want to write them down either. When you write, it's as if you unburden yourself a bit of things, as if you release yourself from them. Why would I do it? Putting it in writing would be to distance myself a bit, to place them on a surface and materialize them, to see them outside of myself, to excise them from myself. And I already do that enough.