"To share our joy or our delight with someone else is an act of vulnerability."
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"To share our joy or our delight with someone else is an act of vulnerability."
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. These words from Paulo Coelho have been a guide for 2020. Wishing you the conquest of joy in the coming year.
We are mired in challenging, stressful, distressing, scary, and heartbreaking moments right now. That fact cannot be avoided. Frankl tells us, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”. That’s what I the hope and the message I wish to share right now.
Gladness just felt….easier. Like breathing in cool air. Being a cynic, particularly in some of the areas I’ve lived and in some of the social circles I’ve been a part, is often a valued trait. Skepticism, I’ve found, is carried like an armor to denote depth and a certain kind of knowing. It’s exhausting.