Joy

[Cackawhookie]

Name changed for this, as I feel a bit silly. Do people genuinely feel actual joy? What does it feel like? I really struggle with my emotions and it’s been pointed out to me that I don’t ever appear to enjoy anything - although I think I do. Is feeling joy more than feeling a little content (which is what I feel) What sort of things being you joy?

happy, skippy, bouncy.... that is how I experience joy. Thinks that make me feel joy are seeing something beautiful, achieving something, family arriving home from work

I feel what I would say is joy when I’m playing with my dogs on the beach. They are so happy and excited that it’s hard to not feel it too. My kids overcoming of achieving stuff or being excited about something, when I’m at concerts or finish a run/hike, I just forget about everything else and I’m in the moment for a while.

Its different from the contentment I feel most days. Contentment to me is just a feeling of all is ok and calm. Joy is ‘higher’. For me.

I feel joy actively, when genuinely laughing, doing something fun or reacting with joy i.e. jumping around with kids, running to DH when he's home from work

Inactively i feel joy when watching the kids playing or being sweet, even if not grinning or laughing, i feel the joy.

I'm too bored to feel joy, I'm bored all day at work watching the clock.
I'm bored when I get home and have to do the tedious housework.
Then repeat X6 days.
I'm too tired to enjoy my day off which is filled with chores and dread for the next X6 days.

I used to look forward to retirement but that's a goal post that keeps moving so now I just try and get through life somehow with the joy of knowing I won't live forever.