Yesterday’s thoughts missed
something important, in fact vital.
Being able to laugh is critical to positive moods, great energy and
utter relaxation. Best of all, if you
can laugh at yourself you are well on your way to happiness.
I don’t know much about
other people’s family dynamics when it comes to humour but I fully appreciate
my family’s ability to laugh at ourselves and to continue jokes for
decades. When my youngest brother was
still a teenager he had a part time job at Safeway as a stock boy. One evening he was filling the cookie shelves
and spotted the fig newton cookies. Now
this was a cookie that my father liked but as my mother did not care for them
she would seldom by them. When Erik saw
them, as he related the story to us, he said “fig nut” as his lightbulb
moment. Naturally he bought the cookies
but for the rest of the family, his expression of “fig nut” has become our
lightbulb moment quote. Yeah, I know,
you had to be there!
You see what I mean? I can laugh at myself even as I visualize
folks reading this and thinking “now what’s so funny about that?” Humour is in the psyche of the believer. (right, I just made that up too). In our family we only have to look at each other
upon uttering a certain word and we can start giggling. Some words bring out loud guffaws. Film quotes can create whole dialogues that
end in laughs.
We are also very forgiving
when we poke fun at each other because we can laugh at ourselves. I am not sure how one develops a sense of
humour but I am pretty sure that it can be done. Our brains are amazing machines as long as we
give them the exercise that they need.
So go on, get a laugh on!
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