more joy

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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