Mins,
“I
think it is important that we do not let the serious win.”
There is a certain place in
you that I always want to encourage. It is your funny side. I do not see it
often enough and it is not the side of you that our experiences together really
support but as the years go on I want to live in this part of your house more
and more.
There is no such thing as
stoic joy. There is no such thing as joy without laughter and lightness. When you
enter that quirky, dorky, voice-melding mode I am always there for it.
Now, I am reluctant to say
these things to you because you might think that this is my favourite part of
you or it might lead to the idea that I always want some sort of performance. I
am mentioning it now because I think it is important that we do not let the serious
win. Life is serious enough without us frowning at it all the time.
There is a note in the music
that surrounds much of life that is pure joy. When we are told to “count it all
joy” it is so we can find that note in the most ugly of circumstances. It is
the note that speaks to those feelings of beauty and peace and tranquillity captured
in most poetry and in our tamer dreams. It is that sense of eternity that says
there is something beyond the injured body and beyond the fractured soul. It is
a call deep in the human spirit to perhaps glance up at the endlessness of the
stars that will outlive the dangers of human cruelty and the purpose driven
calamity of demoniac rage.
The call speaks to the
eventual cure for all ills but joy speaks to the circumstances of the now and
the promise of tomorrow. It joins both worlds. I cannot speak to the billions
of people under the crux of the varied injustices of this world in any
intelligent way. I can try and share a little of what I know from my small
suffering and bleeding. I know there is a light above all lights. I know that
it creates joy in the most awful of circumstances.
I know that my joy is
situated in your funny now. It is my very loud cure against the silent madness
of the world we presently live in.
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