A
lot of folks have the motto to keep others smiling. That’s a commendable practice. But I wonder how many of those folks remember
to take care of the one behind the scenes and laugh themselves?
In
my experience, I’ve found that life’s far
more enjoyable, not to mention, manageable, when it’s filled with
laughter. Doesn’t mean you have to laugh
all the time, though, learning to do so does have its benefits. The ability to laugh at one’s self, life in
general and those things that could otherwise bring us to our knees helps to
empower us to make it through situations we might otherwise falter under the
weight of.
Laughing
just plain feels good. It also lightens
our souls and affords us the opportunity to wipe clean a slate of daily sludge
so we might see things from a less emotional state. Doing so makes it possible to view things
from a more objective mindset so we can map out a clearer path of how to
proceed.
Have
you ever found yourself in a situation where you didn’t know whether to laugh
or cry? Though tears serve a valuable
purpose in lightening our emotional loads, so too does laughter. Many don’t consider this when they’re
trudging along in the messy trenches, feeling the weight of the world bear down
on them. At those moments, folks, and
I’m one of them, may collapse into tears when perhaps a brief spell of laughter
would’ve served them better.
Laughing
when all you want to do is cry may take a bit of getting used to. At first, doing so feels a little like you’re
losing your mind, questioning why the heck you’re laughing instead of
crying. I’m not indicating that tears
won’t follow. They may. But granting one’s self the liberating
freedom to laugh for a short spell can prove cathartic as it sheds some of
life’s burdens, if only temporarily, from a person’s shoulders. Then, if and when tears do set in, the person
is better equipped to deal with whatever life has thrown their way.
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