The Choice of Joy: Day 15, The Feeling

I have been writing about things, events and people who trigger in me a feeling of Joy. 

The triggers help.  And I intend to continue watching for those triggers and documenting them.  But today, my trigger seems to be thinking of the feeling itself.

Seems easier today than it was fifteen days ago to find the feeling.  Has the exercise of daily reaching the feeling cleaned out and cleared certain pathways of my brain so Joy is becoming easier to access?

Maybe.  What I do know is that today, I marvel in the complexity of feeling Joy.  Like a good wine it has its nuances.  There is something earthy, full and so very precious.  Intoxicating?  Yes, that too. But any emotion can carry intoxication. 

The feeling does not isolate me from my problems nor seem to blind me to my many flaws.  But the feeling seems to provide some balance against my internal list of shortcomings and the external negatives I receive from the media and the troubles of others.

There is also something holy about it, something of the spiritual. 

Enough today.  I want to know the feeling, but not dissect it.  Earthy, full, precious and even holy and spiritual.  That is enough to know about my choice of Joy today.