life should be...

"Life should always be abundantly joyful and effortless"

I saw this on a sign outside a local chiropractor's office.

I think it is supposed to be read as encouragement.

But I keep getting stuck on the "should be" and the hyperbolic nature of the sign.

I mean, I do believe one should certainly be on the look-out for the moments in life which are abundantly joyful and/or effortless.

But if life were always those things, how would we recognize those truly spectacular moments?

 {those moments that leave us in awe of this world, the people around us, and the promise of richness to come}

How are we to make sense of the abundantly gritty, effort-full, deeply sad, or confusing moments?

Obviously, I keep getting stuck on the realities of life.

Life is:

sometimes abundantly joyful

and sometimes effortless

{but}

Much of the time, it is a lot of hard work and we have a hard time finding the joy.

So I have revised the saying in my mind to read:

Life should always be open to find abundant joy in our effort.