"Happiness is not having more things."

When you buy a new thing, you can feel you are happy of course. But this will wear off quickly.

Why?

The feeling you feel when you buy a new thing is not happiness, but joy. Joy is when something external causes you good feelings. On the other hand,

"happiness is an inside job"

Happiness is something, that you do for yourself.

Both happiness and joy can feel similar, but the greatest difference is that joy wears off quickly, because it is caused by something external, but happiness stays, because you make yourself happy.

Unfortunately we are bombarded from the media each day that this will make you happy, that will make you happy. But they can only cause you joy, as that one is from external influences. Therefore they often try to blur the lines between them, so they can say buy this something and you will be happy.

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