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What is Joy?
Not happiness exactly, but joy. An active joy. Contagious. Radiant. Inspiring.
While happiness and joy are related, and even arguably overlap, there is a difference.
Kind of like a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square.
Joy is a type of happiness, but happiness is not necessarily a type of joy.
The difference, to me, between happiness and joy feels like the difference between a passing stranger smiling back at you vs. the person you love most in the world smiling back at you.
Smiles are nice. Keep smiling at people.
And let’s look for more joy.
Where can we find joy?
Did you ever watch any of those big surprise giveaways that Oprah used to do?
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