Ranking good days quietly spoils most of them. Deciding that one holiday was better than another, or that this birthday did not match last year’s, means each new pleasant day arrives into a competition it can lose. Memory does not work as a league table anyway; the days you return to are rarely the ones that scored highest at the time. Comparison is a way of not being present at either occasion.

Try letting the next good day go unmeasured against any other. Notice how much more of it stays with you when nothing is being scored.