Thinking back to childhood days, a picture of the sun was usually illustrated with a radiant friendly smiling face, invoking feelings of joy. Somewhere right now the sun is rising and somewhere it’s setting, or is it? We all know that it’s actually the earth that’s turning, moving into or out of, the sun’s light. Then there is a solar eclipse, which the earth has no control over, that can also momentarily block the sun’s light. In the same way we can actually turn either towards or away from something like joy, thinking it’s joy that moves into or out of our lives. We can also allow events that’s completely out of our control to rob us of our joy. So most of the time we actually determine if joy is present or absent in our lives and if someone or something tries to rob us or our joy, it’s our response thereto that determines the duration of joy’s absence. I use a very easy system to make sure I live life with joy. Every …