In a classic scene from the movie Good Will Hunting, Will, the main character, has a major breakthrough in his counselor’s office after a few months of therapy. He weeps into his therapist’s arms and walks out the door a changed man. It seems from that one potent moment, he transfigures his entire life.

It’s such a moving scene. We’ve been rooting for his character, and it’s touching to see him suddenly transform and go off to live the life he deserves.

We all wish for moments like that. For that dramatic change we’ve been working so hard for to instantaneously emerge and forever alter the course of our life.  

Don’t worry.

This isn’t a post on positive thinking, or how to find the silver lining in your heartbreak or crisis or tragedy.

I’m not saying that silver linings are nonexistent, but it’s certainly the last thing we want or need to hear when we are suffering.

This is a post on remembering the goodness life offers us, because you are inherently good and deserving of life’s goodness, no matter how much it feels like you are getting the opposite message.