She continued: “Thank you for supporting my growth as an artist and individual. Thank you for using your hearts, minds and voices to better the space around you. Thank you for inspiring me. There’s so much life to live. I’m so excited to see where we go.”

Larson’s words should be required reading for everyone on the eve of an important birthday. They are a reminder that, if we’re lucky, life is long and there’s a lot of it to live. A 30th birthday isn’t a benchmark for all your achievements and success, it’s a chance to change and evolve and grow.

A lot of women do feel anxious about big birthdays such as turning 30. “Milestone ages are significant as we have collectively and culturally endowed them with certain ‘shoulds’ to have been ticked off by those points,” says psychotherapist, couples counsellor and author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, Hilda Burke. “Anxiety can arise when we measure ourselves and our achievements next to these cultural ‘norms’.”

But Larson’s post underlines, poignantly, how misguided that anxiety is. A 30th birthday is truly a cause for celebration and not the time to have an existential crisis.

Brie Larson just perfectly summed up why turning 30 shouldn’t be scary