Blessed! August, September, October

Blessed. In my opinion, people often use this word too casually. Beautiful, new house? New job or a pay raise? Children? What about the fact that you live in a great country and can celebrate freedom? If those are blessings, what is going on when you lose them? What is going on with your neighbor who wants those things so deeply, prays their entire life for them, sheds many tears, and yet still never gets what you take for granted as a blessing? Or, maybe more difficult, if you see these things as a blessing but one day wake up and find you have lost them, have you been cursed?