I used to look for the humor in what I was doing or where I was. Something I can make a joke out of and get others to laugh but over the years that perception has seemed to have left me and I find myself searching for the joke once again.
Laughter increases your mood, it actually makes you feel better in the long run, if you can find something to laugh about once a day then you will be so much better off than someone who doesn't.
When I say laughter I mean laughter, not lol on a text or a fading smile. A right from the gut bellow that you can feel throughout your whole body, and you will remember that laugh and why you laughed that hard for a long time after because it affected you so perversely. Remembering what was so funny is as important as feeling the sensation to begin with. You can bring back the laughter from remembering what had happened.
When I would go to the mall I really used to get a kick out big burly men sitting in a woman's clothing store holding their girlfriends purse while the girl tried on clothing. The look on their face was priceless. I can relate to it as well as I have also been a guy in a clothing store holding my wife's purse on many occasion.
I've always had a bit of morbid humor in what I've thought was funny, but I think a lot of us do, especially when we witness someone else hurting themselves by slipping on the ice, or falling off a horse, the impact is even funnier if it happens to be one of our friends. I'm not totally heartless, I don't want my friend to be badly hurt, I think it's the loss of composure and some of their pride that gets me laughing. The look on their face afterwards.
Somewhere along the line I have become too...adult, I guess you could call it. Too serious about situations and people. I overthink almost everything and that stops me from simply enjoying myself. At some point in my life I have been slowly burying my inner child and it's time to dig him out and clean him off, and make sure it doesn't happen again.
A laugh a day will keep the blues away.
Scott Goerz
