Stop managing your happiness.

Here’s another reminder.

You don’t have to manage your future misery or your present happiness.

If you feel good right now, feel good.

And do so without holding back.

You don’t have to somehow slice the feeling in half because you’re afraid your current good feelings will attract problems.

Like you’d better not get used to it, or else…

You don’t have to feel bad already for something that might happen someday, so it won’t feel as bad when it occurs.

It doesn’t work that way.

You don’t need to mix and match and shuffle and water down and suppress the nice things you feel because you’re afraid you don’t deserve it and enjoying it now will get you in trouble tomorrow.

You’re allowed to feel elated, joyful, liberated, and childishly bubbly.

It’s there for you to enjoy, not to trim down or destroy.

There’s an infinite amount of happiness available to you.

Piles and piles and piles.

You don’t have to save something for a rainy day.

You don’t have to cut it off, hide it, or downplay it.

Nobody’s keeping the score.

Nobody will punish you for feeling good.

Nobody will secretly write down all the moments you had a really good time, so you can be judged and sentenced for it someday.

Feel good if you feel good.

Hell, even feel good if you don’t!

The world will never run out of good stuff.

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