This has resonated with me so much since I read it and fits so well with the purpose of Joyspiration that I have to share it here with you. It is not my own so I take no credit. It may belong to Ryan Grow - I found it on social media:
There's a line from the film Inside Out 2 that resonated with me so deeply…
It's the scene where Sadness shyly asks Joy if she can go down into the memory pool with her. In response, Joy takes Sadness hand into hers and says to her friend, "Of course! Remember Sadness, wherever I go, you go too."
When I heard that, I remembered how some people like to say that they are afraid of being so happy because they know that after the happiness, sadness follows. That's really no way to live, and neither is it true. One doesn't follow the other because they always travel together, side by side, hand in hand.
Joy and sadness are like the railroad tracks. Even on the saddest of days, if we look hard enough, and allow ourselves to experience it, there will always be some joy to be found. Likewise, even on the most joyful of days, like the birth of a child, a wedding, a graduation, a championship, or a promotion, when we remember that someone or something is missing, there will always be that tinge of sadness.
So when we say that we are grateful for life, we cannot just be grateful for the joyful moments, we must be grateful even for the sad parts. We must be grateful for all of it. Joy and sadness carry us (or we carry them) as we move forward from one season of life to the next.
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