Have you ever felt your life was meaningless because you could not find joy in it?
A beautiful young woman wearing an expensive dress visited her psychiatrist. She told him she felt very depressed because her life was meaningless.
Wisely her psychiatrist called over the cleaning lady. Then he said to the rich lady, “Mary here will tell you how she found joy. All I want you to do is listen to her.”
So the cleaning lady sat down and told her story.
“My only son was killed in a car accident three months after my husband died of cancer. I had nobody and nothing. I could not sleep or eat and never smiled at anyone. And I even thought of taking my own life.
“Then one evening, a little kitten followed me home from work. Feeling sorry for him since it was cold outside, I decided to let him come into my home. He licked a plate of milk clean and then he rubbed against my leg. For the first time in months, I smiled.
“Then a thought occurred to me. If helping a little kitten could make me smile, maybe doing something for other people could make me feel joy again. So the next day, I baked some bread and took it to a neighbor who was sick in bed.
“From that day on, every day I tried to do something nice for someone. Seeing others happy made me feel true joy.
“Today I don’t know of anyone who sleeps better than I do. My joy comes from giving happiness to others.”
When she heard the cleaning woman’s story, the rich lady cried. She had everything money could buy, but she did not have the most important things in life, the things that money cannot buy.
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How can you find joy? Just create beauty in your life and others’ lives by enabling others to feel happy.
Please go out and find joy today.
Let the encouraging words in these bobbiejrae posts help you
soar like an eagle above life’s storms.
You must decide for yourself…
Missing someone you love today?
You can love yourself and life again…
Weeds in your life can deprive you of joy…
