If you want to experience more joy from the people around you, you can try choosing different people to be with.
But if what you really want is more joy in your life, let go of the belief that joy comes from outside yourself. Seek joy within by focusing on facts and experiences that move you to gratitude. Focus not on losses or travails, but on cherished relationships, happy memories, illnesses you or others have been spared, or accidents you have avoided. For example, rather than dwelling on "my spouse died!", one might focus on "I had many years with a wonderful spouse - who would want me to live fully and joyfully."
The more often you seek reasons for gratitude and joy within yourself, the more reasons, and the more joy, you will find there.
And pretty soon you will experience joy in being with so many people it may seem as though they are the source of your joy.
