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[lonelocust]

Today, I was walking home in the perfect San Francisco day, sunny with a cold breeze, eating one of the sweetest cherries ever, and I felt so perfect happy. It made me think of how it's not just tempting to believe in a god or a spirit because it's scary to think of the state of not being, but it's also tempting to feel blessed and to have

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[ravenblack]

It's strange that there's no word with no 'cause' connotation - blessed implies something that blesses, lucky or fortunate implies that chance brought about your well-being. I want a word that just means you are happy to be in a state of well-being.

Deviating a little closer to that there's "content", but that kind of implies that there's something lacking and you're just okay with putting up with it, and is mostly internal anyway, or "happy" which is entirely internal and doesn't speak to circumstance at all.

Or there's "well-off" which carries heavy financial connotation rather than general 'good'.

[pyrtolin]

Unless, of course, the entire point of such an experience is to create a sense of "There but fir the grace of God, go I", translating from there into a more active motivation to share what "blessings" that you are able to and lift others out of their straits.

But then, that's right at the core of what makes such spiritual casting of events so dodgy to begin with; they essentially serve as a projection a person's biases onto the world, rather than any sort of objective metric.

[lonelocust]

This applies to how I feel emotionally about others praying, also. If people pray to center themselves and "ask" for strength/conviction to go out and make the world a better place, then I say thumbs up, do it. If people pray and ask that the world become a better place, and then end it there and consider themselves to have done something good instead of to have done nothing, then I'm grumpy.

[lord_of_entropy]

I think "blessed" could be reasonably used to express awareness of privilege, e.g. I was both lucky enough to win the sperm lottery & am blessed with social status.

[lord_of_entropy]

Additionally, reading about your blissfulness pleases me. <3