Be Joyous…
Fun & Joy Keep Us Young…
We forget, always with the forgetting. We forget the fun we had when we were young. The young can find a million ways to have fun. Yet as we get older, more and more folks have less and less fun.
Life externally has a way of doing that. Responsibilities, maturity, we all change, but we should never let the child in us be forgotten by us. Joy is good for our soul. Joy is high vibrational and good for you. Of course we hope it’s not dancing on the graves of your enemies or stuff like that, but joy, joy is good for you.
We were thinking about this when we were getting drenched in the rain on our morning ride to feed the turtles in a pond about eight miles north of us today. We had watched the radar maps and thought we “might” be able to make it in-between the passing storm clouds. Didn’t happen. Rained on us for about two thirds of the way, sometimes heavy. Only when we were on our second stack of saltines did we stop seeing the rain drops on the pond surface.
It’s our entertainment, and starts us off everyday in a great mood, happy and joyous. We look forward to it every morning! Regardless how late we may stay up at night we will always get up early and check the weather and if not raining or about to rain we will head out on our E-bike. We head north and feed the turtles two racks of saltines from the $2 boxes we get at the Doller store, so they get a dollar a day. Then we go and feed the squirrels and birds at a feeder set up in a great spot by some older folks in a couple trees across the street from their houses along the sidewalk. There’s a squirrel feeder and even a couple water holders. We stop there every morning and feed the squirrels, blue jays, cardinals, woodpeckers, blackbirds, pigeons, and doves. They get peanuts in the shell and out of the shell. The in shell are $3.59 a bag and the non shell are $2.39 a bag. They get about $13 a week. How could we possibly get more joy than that every day for just $80 to $100 a month for entertainment?
When we pull up at the pond we see the little wakes as they start heading towards us from everywhere, and some will come right out of the water up the enbankment. It is so much fun as we throw the saltines like little frisbees out to those coming from afar who may think they might not get some and are trying to hurry.
At the squirrel feeder, some will run right up to us, on either side of the bike, like “hey, down here, can I have one”, they are too cute. Or run right down the tree to be the first and take a peanut right from our hand before we even start throwing them out or tossing some into and on the feeder. We so enjoy when the young birds come in for peanuts, and we’ll pretty steady see the woodpeckers and blue jays, rarer are the blackbird and cardinal young. Sometimes there are so many squirrels and variety of young and older birds that it seems ethereal. Those are extra special days to us! Other days we’ll notice kitty cats about and hear the squirrels screeching at them, and nobody comes to us. We still toss the food out and around and in and on the feeder because we know they’ll all enjoy it when the cats wander off.
We always leave with a smile. Always! The fun and joy we get from this is not measurable. It sets the whole day off to a wondrous start and we can’t wait to further enjoy our day no matter what is ahead that day, because we’ve already had so much fun for one day that it doesn’t matter.
We each have to find our joy, find our joyous moments, the things that make us happy inside and make us smile and feel good. The other stuff will still be there, it’s always there, that other stuff. But without the joy, internally, without being joyous somewhere, somehow, without it we seem to lose it, like it fades away, and we should never let that happen. We should just find another way to bring joy into our lives, another way to stay joyous. We must, or we harden, and then there is less and less joy in us, and we can’t share joy we do not have within us.
When we were young we could never figure out why society didn’t put adult and child daycares together with pet daycares? The three go so well together and bring so much joy to each other and an overall joyous atmosphere. When we got older and understood the evil behind the world we realized we had answered our own question when we were young. lol
Never let joy from your life, internally. Always fight against that! It will help you find your True Self / True Path and stay on it. If you don’t have joy in your life you should find it and keep it there. You will feel younger and live longer and be more you, a better you, than without it.
You are Love & Light. Act accordingly, be YOU.
Love & Light