Words sometimes fascinate me. Their meaning. Their origin. How they are used and misused. How the meanings grow and change in the culture.

Today I have been thinking about joy.

Somehow, someone who is full of joy is different than someone who is a joy.

I am thinking that a person who is a joy is a person who is a source of joy. Their joy is internal and conditions how they act, how they are.

Is the source of joy internal or external and does it matter?

(When I looked up the definition of joy above, I was amazed to see that it was a noun for almost 100 years or more before it was used as a verb!)