{"id":1732,"date":"2026-03-26T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:11:39","slug":"worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

I hope you are continuing to find ways to make meaning in these fraught times. There is so much goodness to balance out the madness, it just needs to be sought!<\/p>\n

The other day, I was presented with an opportunity to reflect on the concept of \u201cworth\u201d when I attended a talk by Hannah Moscovitch, a super-successful Canadian playwright and a top writer for television.<\/p>\n

Hannah was honest and forthright about the highs and lows of writing for TV and made light of the \u201ccrazy difference in pay scale\u201d between theatre and television. She joked, \u201cWhen you\u2019re a playwright, you\u2019re like, \u2018Thank you for this forty-five dollars\u2019, and after writing for television for a while you\u2019re like, \u2018Wow, I can buy a ski chalet.\u2019\u201d Her candour was refreshing.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Hannah\u2019s success made me envious. For most of my young life, I was told I was going to be famous and it\u2019s been an ongoing process to contend with the fact that I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

After Hannah gave her talk, the part of me that longed for starry success needed some attention. I told my little fame-seeker that it was okay to want what Hannah had. It was okay to want to be the darling of critics, to have famous actors saying my words on the New York stage, to be an in-demand show-runner in the entertainment biz. It was okay to want all of that.<\/em><\/p>\n

But did I really<\/em> want it? Would I trade any of those things for the life I have now? What kind of \u201cworth\u201d does my life have?<\/p>\n

Two things came to me. The first was the response of a dying man when I sang to him as he slipped away. \u201cThank you,\u201d he said, \u201cThank you, thank you.\u201d I will never forget, for as long as I live, the broken tenderness in his voice as he repeated his gratitude.<\/p>\n

The second was the phone call I received from the same man\u2019s brother, letting me know he had died. The brother was a life-long trucker: tough exterior, soft heart. As he broke the news, his voice quavered. He was torn apart but stoically holding it together. He thanked me for being his brother\u2019s friend. It had meant something to them both.<\/p>\n

How do we measure worth? I can\u2019t buy a ski chalet but these two experiences make me feel like I\u2019ve hit the jackpot.<\/p>\n

May you discover and uncover what has worth in your life.<\/p>\n

Celia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, I hope you are continuing to find ways to make meaning in these fraught times. There is so much goodness to balance out the madness, it just needs to be sought! The other day, I was presented with an opportunity to reflect on the concept of \u201cworth\u201d when I attended a talk by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1121,1120,1119,1122,555,1118,910],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death-and-dying","tag-hannah-moscovitch","tag-inner-child","tag-palliative-care","tag-playwriting","tag-self-worth","tag-spiritual-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}