What makes you feel joy?

[Puffy]

Same subject as the title: what makes you feel joy?

Feel free to share your own understanding of what joy is to you.

For me, joy is something different to mental stimulation like "I'm enjoying reading this book right now." It's an emotion and an energetic excitement I feel in my heart and body. I tend to feel it the most when I'm physically embodying it through dance, singing/music, or clowning/performance.

 

[birdsnestfern]

Imagine waking up on a Summer weekend morning, it is warm already at 8am, putting on sandals, shorts and summer top, going out the front door and just walking down a sidewalk through a neighborhood that is lined with trees. Skipping, finding bits of heather, poppies, and picking one or two to fill a pocket with. Then discovering an abandoned lot filled with oaks, shagbark manzanita, bamboo, and wandering in and pushing through thick bamboo thickets. A large cherry tree has ripe sour cherries on it. You climb up some nailed in wooden boards on a large oak find a platform to lay on and eat sour cherries on and look up through the leaves and branches and just laze by yourself and listen to sounds nearby. Kids splashing in a pool over the fence. Small engine airplanes flying by. Birds and Squirrels scampering on branches. Just the carefree feeling of being able to walk out the door and find a hidden lot to enjoy in the beautiful warm weather with not a care in the world.

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The Pool where the snack bar was was a very nice joyful place to spend a Summer moment in.

Where ever you are right now, this moment is to savor when you settle for now.

 

[ZenRaiden]

I like running, swimming, reading, used to play lot of computer games, but not anymore.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Seeing my nieces, catching up with friends, seeing my parents happy, and connecting well on a date.