The Art of Finding Joy

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The Art of Finding Joy by Courtney Green When I hear the word joy, I think of happiness, and having a great feeling of elation. As I researched the word joy I discovered many more findings. Joy is defined as having the emotion of great delight. Synonyms such as ecstasy, amusement, and bliss are all words that can replace the word joy. Joy was first known used in the thirteenth century, originating from Middle English and Latin from the word gaudia. To discover my findings I used two reference resources, five online, resources and four novel resources from the book, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Although, I understand the meaning of the word joy I got an insight of how others may define the word. Alan Smith from Timely Truths elaborates on how a man exhibits joy. "Notice carefully, the words, "for joy." This man doesn't just sell everything he has, he does so with joy. He doesn't regret it." Alan describes how a man sells the material things he has, but doesn't do it with animosity but with happiness. Essentially, the man shows a great appreciation of what he had exhibiting joy in a whole different way and embracing it. While doing my research on the word joy, I did have a slight difficulty. being that I have experienced joy and know the meaning of it, forming my research was pretty accessible. The one problem I had was finding the etymology. Being that there were several etymologies to choose from I had to choose the one I thought was best.
Joy can also be defined four other ways. Joy can be a source or cause of keen pleasure, an expression or display of glad feeling, a state of happiness or felicity and to feel joy; be glad. As there were many etymologies to chose from an official etymology web site game me a more complex origin. The etymology is " c.1200, "feeling of pleasure and delight;" c.1300, "source of pleasure or happiness,"
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