What is nicer than building a bridge between jokingly smart conversation and salty silliness? With all the mostly troubling, often terrible news we are hit with hour after hour, day after day, the need for laughter has more urgency than ever. Hearing dosages of funny, hardly serious banter makes us forget for a few moments the never-ending problems near us and around the world.
My heart is breaking for human suffering and there are too many angry men and women flaunting their host of gripes on social media.
When we know and feel laughter, our minds blur our problems and lessen pettiness and worry. Being silly somehow fills me up with a tingling bubbly feeling and when people laugh at my humor, hard as it is for me to easily join my mind’s folly with the language to express it, it’s the best and brightest of feelings.
Sometimes my jokes soar out and hit someone’s funny bone. And I’m triumphant. Whether or not introduced as one, a funny remark can build into more blooming jokes and soon everyone is hitting issues with humor, not malice. A very wise person knows laughter is medicine. And doctors recommend following great operations with light-hearted interactions. Comedy is one of my best friend’s loves. He does stand-up comedy and his joke about me still has my mind chuckling. Let’s all love laughter a little more and learn that laughing at ourselves is knowing we aren’t perfect, and realizing it’s way more fun that way.
