Joy is the capacity to let positive aliveness register fully enough to affect us.
Joy is the capacity to let positive aliveness register fully enough to affect us.
Joy can be surprisingly vulnerable.
To love something is to discover something that could be lost. To feel good can expose how long we have not felt good.
Some people therefore dampen joy before disappointment has the chance to do it for them.
Joy capacity lets the good moment exist without demanding guarantees about the next one.
It does not deny suffering.
A life can contain grief and joy on the same day.
Sometimes in the same hour.
The capacity is spacious enough for both.