J-O-Y
If someone were to ask me what song would best serve as the soundtrack of my life at this point, it would have to be ‘Joy’ by the group, The Soil. This is because inexpressible joy seems to be oozing out of every part of my being! There is this “feeling” deep inside my soul, inside my being, that I cannot not even begin to describe because I think that I would not do justice to it! The best I can do is to call it what it is, and that is J-O-Y! I am very deliberate in the choice of word I am deciding to call this state of being that I am in. I do not refer to it as a feeling, because feelings are fleeting, but a state of being is more solid, it more fixed, it is more permanent. I am not referring to it as happiness, because in my view happiness is more often than not linked to a set of circumstances whereas joy is something that you can possess regardless of your circumstances, whether they be good or bad! Joy may have an element of happiness but the two terms are not, well in my vi...