These are emotional word pictures that explain joy and happiness, and contrast them a little.
Joy:
Joy is a slow strong cold river of liquid burning silver beind your eyes. Joy is inhaling deeply from your chest and lightly tensed muscles in your forearms and wrists.
Joy stays with you for a long time, it makes you giddy and happy yet fully cognitive and clear late into the night, it makes you prance at spontaneous moments throughout the day.
Joy is a deep-seated river, a calm, a quiet passion, a security, a knowledge. Joy makes you smile uncontrollably, it makes you giggle quietly.
Happiness: (pleasure?)
Happiness makes you tired, exhale, rest, grin. After a lot of it you are satisfied and finished. You no longer want it. It is a gift. It is instantaneous satisfaction. It is auxiliary, unexpected, not the main point, a special something on the side. It is when things work out wonderfully.
Happiness makes you laugh and chuckle and grin and giggle sharply.
By the way, the fact that joy is experienced (and is independent of situation) means that you can feel positive emotion while being flogged. HA!
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