What makes you laugh or brings a smile to your face? Have you ever been in one of those situations where you are suppose to be serious but something funny happens and it hits you as incredibly humorous and you just can't contain your laughter or you end up looking like you are guilty when all you are doing is finding humor but trying to keep a straight face? Ah yes, we've all been there! I have a couple of occasions that I still think back to that bring a smile to my face or even a laugh! I love these moments.
There is a fine line between finding humor and laughing with someone and at someone else's mistakes or accidents-those hurt. I have someone in my life who takes great pleasure in laughing at and loves to draw attention to my blunders or lack of grace when I have those moments. This hurts my feelings-yep, I just admitted it. I know we all have our less than graceful moments but for me when someone trips or blunders, especially in front of other people I try to ignore or make light of it rather than draw attention-I try to be compassionate. We all know those people who take great pleasure in seeing other people mess up...not sure why or if they realize they do this, but this behavior has changed how much I interact or deal with this person, unless I absolutely have to. It's like they just wait for me to mess up. I just want to say to this person go find something positive to do with yourself rather than make me even more embarrassed or uncomfortable in life : (
Anyway back to humor in life! I love to laugh and find humor in life. I'll be the first one to laugh at myself for whatever reason.
I remember sitting in church once with my eldest niece and the bible reading by the lector was not funny but in the way the lady reading it did it. She read s-l-o-w-l-y and enunciated each and every word and read with exaggerated expression. It was not a drama filled scripture reading! It hit my niece, Brenda, and I as incredibly funny in the same way. We could not contain ourselves nor get ourselves pulled together. It was so bad that I thought I was settled down but then saw her shoulders shaking and I was a goner again! We got nothing out of church that day and to this day when I think about it I start to giggle and if I hear that bible reading it brings back great memories. I can even quote a few lines and do them just like that lady did that day!
It also seems that when life is tough or stressful or sad that laughter can help make things a little less as bad. I had an experience with my mom and sisters as we sat with my dad as he was in the last days of his life. I accidentally gave a close family relative the wrong name and everyone knew who I meant and it immediately hit us all as hysterically funny-we laughed and giggled about it for some time. It was still a running joke between my sisters and I when my mom passed.
I was about asleep last night when my lovely little, white, half-grown, kitten-Frosty decide it was a good idea and time to get up on the dresser that is sitting slightly askew from the wall. I turned off the lights and was trying to relax and fall asleep but Frosty thought it was playtime. I suddenly heard a clunk and this was followed by pitiful "meows" that also sounded rather muffled. I wondered and guess that someone had fallen behind the dresser and was stuck as I turned on the light. I was right! Guess who was behind the dresser and could not move or get out....I slid the dresser out and he was baffled by the room and just stood there. I was laughing and had to reach back and pick him up to get him out from behind the dresser. He was grateful and followed me then to bed, but I laid there in the dark laughing for quite some time. Only Frosty would do this kind of thing, in the dark and at night!
Anyway my point in all of this is that humor, in a positive way, is good for you! Laughter helps lift spirits and reduce stress. And I know there is a whole host of medical benefits of laughter. And honestly I have those days where I try to smile at someone who I am pretty sure won't smile back on purpose, and when I do smile and they don't smile back I have a little bit of an "upper hand moment". Ha! You can walk around frowning at the world and you are going to get that right back. I choose to smile and I usually get that back too...except for those really, really miserable people who no one wants to be around anyway. Go ahead and frown-you won't get far in life looking like that!
Positive thought of the day: Find something that makes you laugh and enjoy that laughter!
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