Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism
Sep 23, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
We are very good at giving thanks and surprisingly bad at feeling grateful, and that gap is worth sitting with, because we tend to assume that the words and the feeling are the same thing at two…
Chen LiHost
And that gap is worth sitting with because we tend to assume that the words and the feeling are the same thing at two different volumes when they turn out to be different kinds of thing altogether.
You can hear it in the way we speak to one another about it, in the sentences we often hear.
And in the reminder that there are children somewhere who would give anything for what you have.
Do you remember the last time you actually felt grateful? Felt it in the chest? That warm and slightly heavy sense of having been given something you could not have made for yourself and did not have coming? For a good many people, that is a much harder search than it ought to be.
weeks ago, or the hospital, or the birth, or the year someone sat with you when things were bad.
Genuine gratitude, the felt kind, turns out to be a rare event in a life that says thank you 40 times a day.
And that gap is worth sitting with because we tend to assume that the words and the feeling are the same thing at two different volumes when they turn out to be different kinds of thing altogether.
You can hear it in the way we speak to one another about it, in the sentences we often hear.
And in the reminder that there are children somewhere who would give anything for what you have.
Do you remember the last time you actually felt grateful? Felt it in the chest? That warm and slightly heavy sense of having been given something you could not have made for yourself and did not have coming? For a good many people, that is a much harder search than it ought to be.
weeks ago, or the hospital, or the birth, or the year someone sat with you when things were bad.
Genuine gratitude, the felt kind, turns out to be a rare event in a life that says thank you 40 times a day.
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