Happiness is one of the greatest values of people. Joy is something that keeps the light of life in us and helps us to get up every day and to go to work, to communicate with people, to cook and to sleep. It is difficult to take everything with joy and happiness. The modern world doesn’t allow people to keep good and positive view on the world. And there are only a few people who really take everything as positive events and things. And such people are called optimists.
What is joy?
Everybody has experienced the emotion of joy. But who can give the exact definition of joy? Every person forms his/her personal idea about joy and happiness, but vocabulary defines joy as an emotion of extreme happiness.
Joy is positive emotional background provoked by happy news or feelings of satisfaction. The notion of euphoria is connected with joy and happiness.
Scientists say that joy and happiness are synonyms. And philologists don't make difference of principle between "happiness" and "joy" and say that these words may be used according to the preferences of each person.
A lot of objects have the essence of joy, for example, the joy of life, the joy of observation, the joy of movement, the joy of nostalgia, the joy of communication, the joy of love.
To make the emotions of joy vivid and strong, joy must be conscious.
As a plot it was first used by the Bible in Christianity religion. All events connected with the God's deeds and the love to god must be accompanied with the joy of people.