What is going to give you joy today, and what joy are you going to give?
Do not go to bed tonight without having given and received joy. If you have no time to receive joy today, then give joy, and you will have killed two birds with one stone.
What if I were to tell you that there is only giving anyway? Would you be disappointed? Joy just can’t be given without being received all by itself. This is the rule of the game. Even a helpless baby is giving joy. Certainly, a baby gives the opportunity for joy.
What more can anyone ask for than opportunity for joy?
Well, opportunity for joy is all around you. Begin to think in terms of giving joy. Let your heart be a town crier who calls out his wares: “Joy today. Samples of joy. Freely given. Generous samples. Take some. Take some home. Take some home for your friends. Help yourselves. Come right up. Take all you want, and come back for more.”
Joy enjoins joy.
It is inevitable that you will give out joy. It is easier to give out joy than anything else. It is easier than grumbling. It is easier than instructing. There is nothing easier. You just haven’t been in the habit. Get into the habit now.
It is your birthright to give joy. You are here on Earth to be a deliverer of joy. You are like someone in a supermarket who passes out samples, only you are always on call. Certainly, receivers of joy can find you, yet you are also free to roam. You will discover that there is no joy like giving out joy. You can let joy slip out almost imperceptibly. Joy does not have to be announced.
How giving out joy works is that, like love, its paramour, you can’t give it out without the wind’s blowing it back to you, a fabulous outlay of joy and all that goes with it. Joy is going to hit you in the face, beloveds. You are going to enjoy a whirl of joy, a cyclone of joy, more joy than you have ever known all at once. You are going to be caught up in a vortex of joy, never to return to what might be called a joyless state. You can never return there again. Once joy overtakes, it won’t leave. Joy likes to be with you. It wants you to keep it. It wants you to keep it lively.
No matter how much you give joy away, it will boomerang back to you. You have been caught in joy. Joy is a balloon that takes you with it.
Joy is joy for joy’s sake. Joy, like love, is not to be repressed, held back, made to conform to a preconceived idea. Joy is always at hand, and joy likes to be structuredless. Free-form. Joy loves to be free-form. It will fit anywhere anytime. It has only to be allowed. It’s a pity, but joy needs your permission. Permit it. Permit it now. Give joy license. Imagine a joy license in your wallet.
Look, joy will find you regardless. Even if you are a confirmed grouch, joy will find you. No matter where you hang out, joy will find its way to you. You might as well give in now. You can’t fight joy forever.
Wherever you may stand now, joy is right around the corner. Joy is ready to leap to you. Joy will bop you on the head. It will tickle your ribs. It will start you laughing. It will make you laugh. It will be hard for you to stop laughing, and why, why, would you ever want to stop laughing?