Glennon Doyle

And it's like on our birthdays, we're like, I want this different kind of life.

I want a different life.

I want it to be different.

And instead of being like, I'm just so grateful to have a life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I like what you said about the blessing versus luck thing.

I just so reject every time someone says I'm so blessed because of this or that.

I know everyone's saying it with good intentions, but it's confusing because it's like, oh, so then the other person's unblessed.

Like if you're blessed to have your health, then what is my neighbor doing?

like God was less excited to bless them.

I like, I'm grateful.

Well, let's look at the list that we were talking about of the things that make us miserable on our birthdays.

Expectations, the opposite of that is gratitude for whatever's here.

Comparison, the opposite of that is gratitude.

Existential dread, fear of what will be.

Opposite of that is gratitude for what is now.

So it looks like everything that makes us miserable on our birthday could be fixed, undone, if we focused completely on gratitude for whatever is.

Mm-hmm.

Is it just because everyone's birthday is everyone else's just normal hard day of life?