WRITING WITH JOY

We all know what it means to write. However, there are different styles of WRITING and there are different genres in which we can write. Writing is “doing”, it’s not an abstract concept. Many of us can write in a language or more than one language. Equally, we all have different standards of writing and therefore, it’s fortunate that the avenues in which we can express ourselves are as varied as there are people who read.

What is JOY? What does it mean to be joyful? In contrast to the word “writing”, “joy” or being “joyful”, are abstract concepts. They are different from being happy, although on the same spectrum of human emotions.

JOY means being in a state of exuberance about life, about what you do. It’s a mental attitude that manifests and shows itself in the way you live life, your general philosophy about living. It’s not something you switch on and off according to your mood or how things are going for you. That would be confusing joy with happiness. If happiness seems compromised because something isn’t going the way you want it, joy instantly converts that episode into a positive, a learning experience. You don’t linger on the negative of a situation, you turn it around to what you can find worthwhile about it. And you grow/evolve as a result.

Because if you don’t evolve, you dissolve.

So, when we WRITE WITH JOY, we don’t let anything, or anyone get in our way – we keep going because we love the process and smile at the result. What’s the old saying: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”