So I was challenged by a friend to paint my joy..

I didn't know what to paint. So I thought about it for a while and then I ended up deciding on painting a scene of two people sitting and watching a sunset by a stormy sky. To me, that is one thing that would make me happy.

While painting it, I ended up removing the second person. Recently my depression and social anxiety has been resurfacing more than I'd like it to, and that is why I removed the other person. Because, my joy is sometimes just being alone, by myself, in a place where I have no worries, or fears of anything. I'm learning that people are my biggest fear, and while most days I can subdue that fear to let me lead a normal life, there are others where I'm not really able to help it.

Sometimes it's nice to just have a place you can go that your cares just evaporate when you go there.