Joy vs. Happiness

 
     What is the difference between joy and happiness?  They seem to mean the same thing right?  Well, out of curiosity, I decided to look up the true, unbiased definition of each.
Joy: -noun, the emotion of great delight or happiness;  keen pleasure; elation.


Happiness: -noun, good fortune;  pleasure;  contentment;  joy


So, whats the difference?  To me, joy seems to be a greater form of happiness.  Whenever I think of joy, even when I was a child, I always thought of it to be a more everlasting sincere form of happiness.  This has been on my mind lately and I thought I would share it.  Do you feel a difference in Joy and happiness or is it all the same to you?  There really is no main point of this post except to  express my ideas or well...thoughts. I would love to consider myself an overall joyful person, but I can't.  I have my days where life makes me just want to crawl in a hole and hide. So I guess I could describe myself as a happy person.  I don't know.  Food for thought.


Much love,
            Lexxa

The Happy Tulip.

I've been thinking about creating a blog lately but I haven't really gotten around to it.  So, I sat down at my desk today trying to defeat the early signs of boredom and I thought "why not now?" and thus, The Happy Tulip was born.  Wondering about the name? I am too.  I came up with it out of the blue after a grueling 20 minutes of wracking my brain for something creative.  It does inspire me in ways I never thought a random thought could.  How does it inspire you?  In the future I hope to really create something out of this blog;  something that can be a brief escape from this hectic world and the lives we live.  Some days these post may be deep, other days they could be light hearted and comical.  I have a wide scope of interest and I always have about a million things flying through my head at any given moment.  So as unpredictable as it may be, I hope you will join me on this wild ride.

much love,

               Lexxa