The Simplest Joy…
April 4th, 2008 by robin
What brings you a sense of joy? Is it laughing with close friends, fishing from the end of a pier on a summer's evening, holding the one you love in your arms, watching your child's face light up when you enter its room, hitting the perfect golf shot, helping another person; what is it that brings you great joy? Only you will know the answer to that question, and maybe you have many joyful moments that you can put on your list.
In my experience my joys are without exception simple. They rarely if ever involve the spending of money.
What is your joy?
We can if we are not careful fill our days with stuff that does not make us happy, that is not really important, which we could use to connect to the things that bring us joy. There is a quotation which states, "Happiness is not found in thing, it is found in us", the same can be said of our joy. It exists within us but we often require a trigger to make it come alive.
So what you may ask is the simplest joy of all? To me now it seems obvious, yet when I tell those when I am asked, they look somewhat disappointed, almost as if I had dodged the question, yet maybe it is the simplicity of the answer, that is unexpected.
I will not tell you my answer directly, but ask you to imagine what the following three people would say it is, if you were to ask them. The patient who leaves hospital after a life threatening condition is cured, the hostage rescued from terrorists against all odds and the skydiver whose reserve parachute inflates 100ft above the ground.
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