I embrace joy and gently release anything that is not joy!

There is a drawer in most houses holding things nobody can quite throw out. A lanyard from an old job. A card from someone who stopped speaking to you. Not kept on purpose — just not ready.

Letting go rarely happens on a schedule. It happens retroactively: you find the thing two years later, notice it has gone inert, and only then does it go in the bin without ceremony.

Forcing it early does not work. It usually buries the thing deeper.

Take the joy now. What is not joy can be put down slowly, and some of it will loosen on its own before you get to it.