Happy comes and goes with the forecast. Joy is the roof you get to stand under when it pours.

Happiness tracks conditions, and there is nothing wrong with that. It rises with good news and falls with bad, like weather, and trying to hold it steady is what exhausts people. The other thing sits underneath, unaffected by the forecast, which is why it can be present on a bad day without cancelling how bad the day is.

Stop treating a low mood as evidence that something is broken in you. Let the weather be weather, and check what is still holding: the people, the work that matters, whatever you are grounded in. Do one thing that connects you to that today, even while the mood stays where it is.