What does It mean to live a joyful life?
It's not a life of constant happiness or forced positivity, but one of depth, acceptance, and discerning what truly matters.
Joy isn’t about feeling good all the time. Accepting a negative experience is a positive experience; denying, avoiding, or masking it with forced positivity only deepens the negativity.
Joy embraces the full spectrum of life: the beauty and the mess, the elegant curation and chaotic underbelly.
It’s learning to move through discomfort, shedding beliefs and expectations of others, uncovering and being led by the deep desires we have.
Joy is the freedom to be who we are.
It’s the freedom to choose.
It’s seeing our choices have positive ripples beyond our own lives.
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist, wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
This space is where I’ll share thoughts about life, questions geared towards creating a better future, and tools that have shaped my understanding of living joyfully, purposefully, and freely. It’s an ongoing conversation, I hope you’ll be part of it!
Does this align with what you think or make you think differently about joy?
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