Can We Achieve Joy?

True joy may be less about acquiring things and more about noticing what’s been there all along.
Can We Achieve Joy?
Joy often arrives unannounced in music, beauty, and quiet moments. Song_about_summer/Shutterstock
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Joy is as necessary to us as air, and just as hard to hold onto. 
Everyone seeks joy and happiness. It’s inherent to our nature as human beings. But we don’t always have a very clear picture of what joy means, or what brings it about. We recognize it when we encounter it: a surge of life within us, a ray of sunlight illuminating the soul. Yet that ray is often hidden behind clouds, and the things that promise us joy often leave us, in the end, empty-handed.
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Walker Larson
Walker Larson
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Before becoming a freelance journalist and culture writer, Walker Larson taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He holds a master’s in English literature and language, and his writing has appeared in The Hemingway Review, Intellectual Takeout, and his Substack, The Hazelnut. He is also the author of two novels, “Hologram” and “Song of Spheres.”