You've Gotta Laugh

‘Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.’
Anon

You Gotta Laugh

'He who laughs, lasts'

Mary Pettibone Poole - A glass eye at the keyhole

My friend Anne has a wonderful sense of humour, not only can she talk about and laugh at herself and so often does. When Anne laughs so honestly and openly you cannot but laugh with her and as teardrops of mirth roll out of her eyes, Anne often quotes this phrase

'Don't take yourself so seriously, nobody else does'

Laughter, true honest laughter is borne of a need to understand ourselves and put the things perspective, and it is healthy. Humour is certainly one way we deal with a myriad of events. While not everything is belly laughing funny, amidst the weirdness, care and worry of daily life we most often forget to laugh.

'If I don't laugh, I'll cry'

Anon

The fact is life is most often not easy. There is nobody on the planet that does not have a 'something to deal with' Life is hard!

'When I hear somebody sigh life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?'

Sydney J Harris - Majority of one

Humour provides perspective and a sense of irony. Someone who has a sense of humour also has the ability to observe life in all its wonderfulness and strangeness, the mundane and the extraordinary.

Humour of the open joyful kind speaks of an ability to have an open mind and an open heart. A person with a sense of humour is most often the person with the greatest capacity for empathy and care. After all, this thing we call life, we're in it together. I have always said that the person who can make me laugh has my heart. For I believe that only with intelligence and an understanding of irony and relativity can you understand life enough to find it funny. There is precious truth in someone who has a sense of humour.

Humour undiluted is the most depressing of all phenomena. Humour must have its background of seriousness. Without this contrast, there comes none of that incongruity which is the mainspring of laughter.

Max Beer Bohm

Life itself provides the backdrop for humour. Nothing in itself is truly funny until there is something else, some experience to compare it with. Humour is one of our greatest gifts a tool that can be used to remove the sting and the pain without minimising the seriousness of an event.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone; for that sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

Solitude, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Find someone you can laugh with, or at, or both, the therapy is worth more than you could ever pay money for. Allow yourself to be humorous and light, to see the lighter side occasionally lift yourself from the rut of the daily grind and 'must do' should do' 'have to' and have a laugh!

Finally, for some magic, because laughter and mirth, the pure joy of having a giggle creates magic. Laughter creates energy, it makes you feel alive and energetic, capable and real, it keeps you present and part of the human experience and sometimes it is the platform for miracles to happen.

'When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Peter Pan 1928 act 1.

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