in my mind, satisfaction is that feeling that comes from knowing you worked really hard at something, and the subtle results that slowly reveal themselves over many weeks or months. Getting an A in a course you busted your ass over for months on end, being able to hold a new yoga pose because flexibility increased over six months. etc etc.
Joy is the other kind of happiness that is pure, intoxicating, and when its over, you so badly want to recreate those moments, even though thats impossible. Joy is a wonderful thing, but the eventual reward at the end of the satisfaction train is a type of sustainable joy that nudges the horizons a little further back.
Satisfaction combined with perseverance leads to joy. Joy, for me, in the past, often lead to hangovers, and a sadness in knowing i can't duplicate the sponteneity of a past moment. Joy does not necessarily lead to satisfaction.
Its a strange statement, cause its based on my own cultivated definitions of the words joy and satisfaction, which make sense only to me.
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Joy is the other kind of happiness that is pure, intoxicating, and when its over, you so badly want to recreate those moments, even though thats impossible. Joy is a wonderful thing, but the eventual reward at the end of the satisfaction train is a type of sustainable joy that nudges the horizons a little further back.
Satisfaction combined with perseverance leads to joy.
Joy, for me, in the past, often lead to hangovers, and a sadness in knowing i can't duplicate the sponteneity of a past moment. Joy does not necessarily lead to satisfaction.
Its a strange statement, cause its based on my own cultivated definitions of the words joy and satisfaction, which make sense only to me.
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