Find Joy, and Fight!

Ariana Debose of Academy-Award winning Westside Story fame was recently on The Tonight Show talking about how “the country is at war with us.” It certainly feels that way. She also talked about how we have to fight for our freedoms. That is certainly true. Just as importantly, Ariana also talked about how we must continue to find joy. Joy in who we are and what we want out of life.

While I have never phrased it this way, I’ve tried to do this in my own life. While I was raising my kids, I tried to find joy in every moment while I was in some ways fighting my way through being a divorced, single, gay dad.

And still today, I am very proud of the life I have formed with my two adult children (three now actually because I now have a son-in-law) and my husband of many many years. I am confident in my own unique way of living my own life. I know what I want out of life, and I’m going to work to get it without anyone pushing me aside. No one should push anyone aside. I find joy in my life and I will fight for it.

Each of us is amazing in our own right … and we have the right to be who we are and to navigate our way through our own life. We need to find the joy in all of that while fighting to be able to do just that.

Find joy, and fight! What’s your experience? JIM