Seek Joy
I want a t-shirt that only reads “Seek Joy” or maybe to incite people, “Seek Joy Not Happiness”. This is becoming my motto, or at least one of them. Where does this come from? It’s item #9 from Guy Kawasaki’s speech “Hindsight“. I prefer my wording to his “Pursue Joy” but that’s just me. It took me a while to figure out what this meant, I’d been mulling over it for 4+ years when it finally hit me while wandering around the Weisswald over looking Trier in Germany. Joy, my gentle readership, is to borrow a term from physics the instant acceleration of happiness. Happiness is a good thing, but it is the steady state, a comfy feeling that can, to be honest, can get monotonous and forgotten. Joy is the spike, the off-the-chart explosion that rocks your world–the no look pass that you made, the down-the-line passing shot, the beautifully worded song lyric, the high of making people laugh, the thrill of learning something new and applying it, the the..you get the picture. It can never be forgotten. Happiness is what makes you comfy and warm but in the middle of winter you still leave the house to go sledding for a rush of joy.
What is your joy? Do you do enough of it? Even if you are happy you need spikes of joy.
I want a t-shirt…
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