Joy is both pleasure and pain. It's the joy of overcoming, of doing something consistent over time. When i went to go writing, became serious about a writer, after a decade of screwing around with it, i told my wife i was going on the week ends to this artist's co working facility and write in the mornings on saturday and sunday. Do you think that was easy? Is that the same thing as having a drink or lounging? Not that we don't mean these things. We need to unwind and have pleasure in our life and check out,. but the joy of going toward something that youre passionat. O lars, yet i made