Are gratitude journals pretentious?

Are gratitude journals pretentious or do they really come from an authentic place of gratitude?

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As part of my masters course, I took a subject called positive psychology which involved writing in a gratitude journal daily. I rolled my eyes at it. As an international student, this seemed so typical of a first world country. I had always believed that writing in a gratitude journal was pretentious and…