You did not give yourself being

We take for granted that we exist, as if it were the most natural thing. But you did not place yourself in the world nor do you stand on your own through willpower. Everything you are you have received, starting with existence itself. Seeing it this way does not diminish you, it frees you. If your life is a gift, you do not have to manufacture your worth through merits. You can start by giving thanks instead of demanding proof from yourself. Acknowledging that you depend on another is not humiliating: it is the most basic truth about you. And from that truth something good is born: looking at life with wonder instead of taking it for granted.