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Like any true Netflix fiend, I too fell into the “Does it spark joy?” craze. What’s interesting is that my mind translated it into something entirely different from what Marie Kondo intended.

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The feeling of ease when everyone you love is together in one room.

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I want to ask you a question so simple you may not have asked it before: Are you happy being alive?

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Sometimes, choosing joy takes discipline. And constant reminders. And acknowledging the despair that is coursing through your veins, so that you can climb your way back to joy.

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Do you remember what you used to do for fun as a child? Do you still do it now? If the answer is no, then now tell me if you are happy?

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I’ve been feeling tidal waves of gratitude, and love for the life I now get to live. 

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You have nourishing connections.

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Be more focused on the good.

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All I want to be is a person who is joyous, who finds hope in the brokenness and light in the dark. I just want to fill and be filled, to bless other people as I have been blessed.

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You are not a perfect person, not always going to do the right thing or be a shining role model, but you are filled with love and light.