You’d like more joy, sure, but at the same time you might be waiting for the ideal moment, the perfect vibe, the clean house, the well-behaved kids, the completed to-do list.
In other words, you are waiting for everything to be just right, expecting that that is the only way for joy to appear.
But joy doesn’t need all that. It can grow in the mess as well. When joy depends on perfection - which in reality never comes - we miss it altogether.
Joy isn’t a reward for perfect behavior, it’s something you get to experience even on difficult or chaotic days.