grace in the age of winning
a losers prayer
Having grace when you’ve won your whole life doesn’t mean anything.
Patience is only a virtue when you manage to find it despite being fucked around with constantly.
Kindness is a rich persons game.
Every time they say “Let’s all meet in downward facing dog.”
say a small losers prayer.
The fortunate have the time to think to themselves, “How can I show more gratitude?”
”How can I find the strength to be my most present today?”
The strength is found usually in a diverse investment portfolio, consciously or unconsciously benefiting from your race, sexual orientation, or gender, and pretty privilege.
it’s easy to find grace when you win all the time.
Every time they say, “I’ve just been very lucky”
say the losers prayer
Having grace when you’ve been grinding it out your whole life?
now that is something worth measuring.
Never judge a man by his character when things are going right.
I think of the people who find the grace to open the door for someone after being overworked and underpaid at a job they hate.
I think of the people who, even though their dad just recently passed, have the time to sit and listen to another persons personal tragedy.
I think of the people, who because of their race, gender, or orientation, suffer the large human indecencies of small passing comments and yet still find the grace to educate and grow people.
I think of the parents, who find the patience to explain to their children why the sun rises and falls. Even though they might lose the house next month.
Grace in the age of winning is easy
Every time they say, “you just have to work hard”
say the losers prayer
Because I am losing right now, but I won’t let that change who I am.
-A
I didn’t know I needed this, but I did. And it couldn’t have been a more beautiful start to my birthday, so thank you for this Avan. Cheers to a quarter of a century to me 🥂 and cheers to your grace, your thoughts, and emerging from whatever it is you feel you are are losing at now (and tbh, all the things I am losing at too). Cheers to grace 🍻
Beautiful. I just had a talk like this with my mom. I come from a hard working blue collar family. My parents worked 2 jobs when we were growing up so they can provide for us. Now that my siblings and I are grown we repay them. In small ways sure but enough for them to know they raised decent hardworking kids to being decent hardworking people. I know what it’s like to be on the losing end so this story hit so close to home. But as you said never change who you are. Because who you are right now is a successful, inspiring actor, musician and writer and a lot of people look up to you. Whether you know who we are or not. 💗