Joy to the World

Joy and pleasure are usually considered as one thing. A small branch from happiness.

That's actually very inaccurate. 

Joy and pleasure are very different from each other. 

Imagine...

You were taken away from your parents, kidnapped. You're abused by the kidnappers, forced to work day and night. After 5 years, they finally found you and you reunite with your parents...AFTER 5 YEARS!

The feeling in this situation is joy. 

Imagine...

You have so much work to due with so little time. It's important that you get it done in time but you just can't focus...what do you do? You go and have a cigarette. To calm your nerves, to try and focus.

You feel pleasure in doing this. 

Joy comes naturally, it's pure and natural. It gives you a sense of true happiness and the feeling stays with you. You see it as a happy memory that you strive to have. Pleasure also gives you happiness but after a while, it turns around and kicks you in the back. You feel happy during the process but it's fake, it's not everlasting. It's like a scar. 

Joy comes in when you're truly happy. You feel happy inside and outside. You're bubbling with happiness. Pleasure also has the same affect but it disappears quickly, leaving you wanting for more. You can have more, but it'll always disappear like it did the first time. Joy stays with you, and it doesn't ever back stabs you. 

Try to find what makes you feel joy, not pleasure. 

If you feel that doing something that hurt others gives you joy, you're lying not only lying to others, but you're also lying to yourself. You feel PLEASURE hurting others and deep, deep down in the depths of your heart, you feel guilty and ashamed. It is smothered under the false identity that you claim to be joy, but it's actually pleasure. Joy would not harm others, or harm yourself. 

Don't let pleasure, the fake happiness, steer you into doing something you'll regret. 

Joy is contagious. Spread joy.