Sadness - JOY

 

P.S this is not the regular post.

Hello! I'm Jeremiah, I'm here to let you know that you can also feel Joy, and happiness isn't really far from you, and yeah, It's not that hard to smile genuinely. I am here to let you know that It does not matter what you are going through (or what going through you) you can be Joyous.

Joy(Happiness) is a weird thing for me to talk about.

Why?

Well, because of the top of my head, I could list a couple of reasons why I probably shouldn't be talking about this, I'm pretty sure if you would also take time and think about it, you probably will be able to come up with a couple yourself.

Everyone is going through something, difficult, that makes us sometimes, or even most times want to give up(that's just and Old story)

But most of us tend to wallow too much in our misery, and it's like we enjoy it(it's weird).

I spoke with a friend of mine recently, and I asked him, "What is Joy?"

He then proceed to answer me, joy is a feeling of immense pleasure and happiness.

And then I asked again, "is it possible to feel Joy when everything around you is saying there's nothing to be grateful for?"

He then said, " at the end of the day what you feel depend on what you choose to see(your focus)" which means being Joyous is a choice, feeling happy is your choice. good things might happen to you, but if you refuse to see the good as good, then you won't be happy, and also, if you fail to see the good in the bad, then you won't be happy.

It all depends on your perspective. I wrote a poem on this, you can check it out here

One thing you need to know is, Joy isn't just happiness, it's much more than that. You see happiness is the major expression of Joy, but Happiness is usually based on circumstances i.e. there is usually has a cause, but you see Joy is way deeper, Joy is more like an attitude, a personality (if I may call it that) it is a character.

I am not here to fight you, quite the contrary. I am here to let you understand that, being sad ain't gonna fix anything.

Life will always throw you curve balls, things you don't like are always going to come your way, but then that's not reason for you to give up, that's not a reason for you to wallow in your misery.

I'm not going to give you mantras or directions to help you experience this feeling, not this is not your regular post, I'm just here to let you understand that.

It's all in your hands, all you need to do is change that point of view.

Hey, I'm not saying it's gonna be easy, but I'm saying it's very possible.

And for that you will need people, you'll need help.

I'm telling this right now, the best help you can get is with God!

All you need to do is let him...

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