What does that mean, exactly? Joy in and of itself is something that I think can't be explained by mere definition of another grouping of lesser words. "Happy" is so overused. What does "happy" mean? When I think happy, I think of laughter and giddiness. Joy, in my opinion, is something so much more so.
Joy is when you smile at the mere thought of something.
The other day at work my manager and I were talking about the spelling of Wednesday and whether it was Wednesday or Thursday. He then brought up his son, Sebastian, and how Sebastian always asks his dad if it's "windsday" - it's a cute little saying from a Winny the Pooh episode. Ryan, my manager, then went on to talk about how he was writing a small song based off of his son's constant question, "Daddy, is it windsday? Can we go fly a kite?"
I commented at how cute it was - beyond the fact that Ryan was writing a song based off of such a cute saying from his son - but because of how he smiled every time he thought about it.
His smile was the kind of smile that you cry at because of the joy and happiness that is conveyed within it. Joy is something that isn't as simple as 'the emotion of happiness', but an outward expression of true, deep emotion. Something beyond happiness. Saying that Joy is 'happiness' deadens the word. It makes it less magical; less meaningful. It adds a dead weight to a word that soars among others.
I never really had known what to attribute the word 'joy' to. Joy is something a parent feels when they've got a memory of their child locked away in their mind forever. Joy is something that a word can't be attributed to. Joy is pure bliss.
It's interesting how much we value words.
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