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Hey friend,
Joy has come up for me in a big way this week.
And this is the awareness….
Joy is to give yourself permission to enjoy life (without needing a reason.)
See, I have had the unconscious habit of waiting for permission from the outside world to have fun, and to enjoy life.
I needed a reason to justify it to myself.
To justify being joyful, to laugh, to fuck around and just be a funny cunt.
(one of my favorite things to be)
I needed to be more jacked, I need to make more money, to be with a hotter girl
I needed to do all of all these things to justify being joyful, happy & light hearted.
And so my life has been pretty serious without me realising it.
And those things I thought I needed to be to justify joy, are never really completed, the bar just get raised.
And so joy never comes.
I have now given myself permission to live with joy in every moment.
For no reason other than i want to live with joy. Because its fun.
And the truth is, the greater joy that I live with, the more it will elevate everything that I do & create.
Seriousness is a disease.
To be serious is to misunderstand life.
“Life is far too important to be taken seriously.”
The adventure always awaits,
-Jay
Jay Topp is a 24 year old writer, marketer, film maker & self-led educator originally from Australia, now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can see his films here. Instagram here. And his business website here.
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