When you jump rope, you are in motion, your body is jumping into a new position.

You learn that you can control the direction and speed at which the jump is taking place and that there are many choices you have to make. This is life. Joy is the jumping into all the options life offers, as well as the opportunities to be held.

Some joy is in the uncertainty of the moment, while others is in knowing you have landed one step on a new path. Joy is in the choices we make. Joy is in the fact that we’re alive. Joy is in the fact that we can choose to live. In this, joy has nothing to do with a life I can control. Joy is jumping rope because I’m alive. Joy is when I’m in my own skin. For me, joy has nothing to do with what I look like or what I wear. It has nothing to do with what I’m capable of or what I have done in the past. Joy is a feeling that I’ve never experienced before, and my entire life I’ve been trying, trying, trying to feel like fitness. I’ve always been trying, trying, trying to feel like fitness because a feeling of joy is all I’ve ever known.

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The definition of joy is to enjoy life. When we have joy, we have to enjoy life, we have to live, we have to experience joyous moments. To enjoy a moment is to choose to stop and enjoy it. It’s to stop and be delighted by the day. It’s to stop and let joy take over our entire body and mind. To enjoy life, we have to live life. In this, joy has everything to with jumping rope.