Are you laughing? If you are laughing, are you happy?
When someone tells a joke, how do you react? Sure it depends on the joke and the one telling the joke. Some people can tell any joke, and it is funny. Others can tell a simple joke and nobody laughs.
Others tell a joke that is not polite. Some people will laugh, but some will chuckle, and are not comfortable. They are not really happy.
Some tell silly jokes. The young person, at the show in Disneyworld, text a silly riddle for the host to respond. He asked what you call a boomerang that does not come back? He said it was a stick. That kind of a joke expects a chuckle.
Another person can tell a story, and everybody is laughing all the way through the story. You could call that fun, and happy laughing.
Some people just do not seem to laugh. They are not very happy, and do not enjoy life.
True happiness, and joy is different. Everybody would like to have that. How do you get that? The Bible says you can have real joy that lasts. Knowing Jesus, and His ways can give you that change in your life.
The Joy from Jesus is a gift. It is not something you work for, or learn. It is a joy that comes from within, and not from the events around you. Happiness can be temporary from your circumstances. But joy is there even when the circumstances are discouraging. Is that hard to believe? Talk to a Christian, or check it out in the Bible, and you can have that special joy everyday.