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Instant Joy or Patient Joy?

5/1/2022

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5/12/2022 05:06:22 am

Joy and happiness are not the same thing. If you meet someone who has found joy, you would probably be more likely to describe them as cool than you would be to describe them as happy. Joy radiates from within you when you know that you are enough, you believe your life has a purpose, and you give up trying to control outcomes that are not in your control (usually because you have faith in something bigger than yourself). Joyful people are confident, self-possessed, giving, courageous, and authentic. Their lives are defined by a sense of abundance and thanksgiving. Everyone deserves to be happy and joyful actually. I think the fact that we are able to see beauty in everything even in painful situations is the beauty of life. Instantaneous joy for me makes patient joy worth while because you’ve held on to the hope even when you didn’t know it was possible.

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