On the Funny Side of Life
On Seeing the Funny Side of Life
Let me say this loud and clear. It is healthy to laugh! We need to laugh more!!! Even the “Good Book” indicates that a “merry heart does good like medicine”! I once read a quote that said, “Everyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else”.
There will be times when you have to laugh at yourself. You will have opportunity to laugh with others about yourself. You won’t have a clue how to do that without a sense of humor. So, cultivate one!
Make it a goal to laugh more. Life is much too short in many ways, but it is certainly too short to fail to see the humor in the events of your day, to see the laughable moment, the “you had to have been there” kind of moment!
You can’t take your life, your job, your situation so seriously-to do so causes you to miss some of the best of your life, your job, your situation! Lighten up! Enjoy the moment! Look for the humor!
My former boss lived out his life looking for the funny pieces in it. He would get that “look” on his face and come out with some of the quickest and wittiest responses. He loved a good practical joke and could take them as well as dish them out (a true mark of a sense of humor!). He loved good jokes and his laugh covered all of him. This aspect of his character went a long way in making some difficult situations more than palatable and some uncomfortable situations just plain funny.
Start making a point of looking at life through the lens of humor. Read more jokes and cartoons. Make it a habit to read the cartoon pages in the paper. Watch old comedy shows (when things other than sexual issues were thought funny!). My husband and I watched a commercial program (you know the kind of stuff that comes on Saturday afternoons when there are no football games). It dealt with a special offer on the old TV Roasts done by Dean Martin many years ago. Old-time comics like Lucille Ball, George Burns, Red Skeleton, Carol Burnett and others participated in the roasts of entertainment personalities. These folks were really funny because their humor came from looking for the humorous in every day life.
I collect clowns and have them sitting all over my office and give them away at presentations. They remind me to not take life too seriously, to lighten up and laugh. I even laughed at the response from my son and his wife to the clowns in my office-they insist that clowns in groups and close proximity are scary!!! How funny is that!!
Look for the humorous! It is out there all around you in your day if you just look for it. You will find what you look for! When you find it, laugh, enjoy, rejoice in the light moment! You will end up being different and may just make a difference in the lives of others, one person at a time!
