When someone calls you silly, they might be giving you a gift you never knew you needed.

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What happens when someone labels you in a way that contradicts your carefully constructed identity? Years ago, when a dear friend called me "silly," it felt like a wound to my serious, accomplished persona. Today, I recognize that moment as a profound gift – an invitation to reclaim the joy I had systematically eliminated from my life in pursuit of being taken seriously.

This deeply personal exploration reveals how our resistance to certain aspects of ourselves – like playfulness, spontaneity, or silliness – can actually block our access to joy. Through poetic metaphors of dancing in storms, climbing trees, and deliberately putting "the left shoe on the right and the right shoe on the left," we discover how disrupting our patterns creates space for authentic self-expression and unexpected delight.

The message becomes especially powerful when we consider the state of our world: "The forces that are all around us are negative in nature. We must find solutions within our individual minds and collective hearts, and silliness sometimes is a good place to start." This isn't about ignoring life's serious challenges but rather about accessing different parts of ourselves to meet them with resilience and creativity.

Whether you've been told you're "too much," "too silly," or any other label that caused you to dim your light, this episode offers a path to reclaiming those rejected parts as gateways to your most authentic expression. What parts of yourself have you hidden away that might actually be your greatest gifts to the world? The gateway to joy might be waiting in the very places you've been afraid to look.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
It is time for joy now.
Leave your happiness behind,hey, love.
Leave it behind.
It's a time for pure joy.
Silliness abounds.
I want to thank a dear, dearsoul.
Her name is Rula R-U-L-A.

(00:42):
Rula is Rula R-U-L-A.
Rula.
Many years ago she called mesilly and it wounded me, but
what she was giving me was agreat gift, because I was trying
to create a life that was veryserious and accomplished and was

(01:05):
not silly at all in my mind.
And when she gave me the giftof silliness, she gave me the
gift of joy, and I was mad ather when she first gave me this
gift.
So today I want to thank hervery, very, very much.
Please forgive me, rura, fornot accepting your gift with

(01:27):
gratitude and love.
Please forgive me.
Silly, silly, silly in my belly, silly, silly, silly in my
belly, silly, silly, silly in myeyes.

(01:49):
Silly, silly ears on my head.
Look at those silly, sillyflies, fly, flies.
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
The gateway to joy.
Ha ha ha.
The gateway to joy.
Ha ha ha.
The gateway to joy, the gatewayto joy.

(02:10):
Merci beaucoup.

(02:51):
This is not to say that thetotality of life is silly,
because some things are notsilly, but it is a time for pure
joy, because the forces thatare all around us are negative
in nature.
We must find solutions withinour individual minds and
collective hearts, and sillinesssometimes is a good place to

(04:03):
start, thank you.
Up in the sky, I see the storm.
It looks so dark, it's brewing,those dark clouds all rolling
on down.
What are you gonna start doing?
Oh, what do you want to do?
I'm gonna open my mouth so wideas the rain falls out of the
sky.
Gonna suck all that beautifulrain up Into my third eye.

(04:29):
I'm gonna spout a spick.
Gonna go slickety, slick, gonnabe a hose of love.
I'm gonna spray everythinginside of me and then I'm gonna
fly high above.
I'm gonna dance over there.
I'm gonna climb a tree today.

(04:51):
I'm gonna roll down the hill ofmud in ecstasy.
I'm gonna climb a tree ecstasy.
I'm gonna roll in some mud.
I'm gonna get dirty down andlow I'm gonna make make love.

(05:20):
Oh, yeah, I'm going to put onsome silly shoes.
I'll put the left foot on theright and the right foot on the
left.
The left shoe on the right andthe right shoe on the left.
Going to mix it all up.
Going to have some fun.
Going to fly, fly, fly up intothe sun.

(05:43):
Oh, she-la-ma-la, he-la-ma-la,ke-la-ma-la, he-la-ma-la-ma,

(06:05):
ka-la-ma-la, he.
Thank you again.
My love for the silliness, thetrue gift that's inside of me,
merci beaucoup.