Tee Hee Hee
I couldn’t make myself laugh out loud today. I just couldn’t do it. I tried. Oh man, I tried. I watched the David at the Dentist video today to make myself laugh — but alas, despite the fact that the video always makes me giggle, I barely mustered a smirk. I made myself remember the time that my cousin told my mom and I the story of her not-so-romantic wedding night where we were laughing so hard that I thought I was going to be sick. I was literally hitting my head on the car window with laughter. And although the memory is funny, it didn’t make me laugh today.
Today was the day I was supposed to laugh.
I was charged with the topic of Laugher for Me You Health‘s Daily Challenge for today’s challenge. But truth be told, when I made myself focus on laughing, I just couldn’t. Hee-hee, haa! or even a measly LOL text were more than I could muster. I’m not sure why, since I spend most days laughing from my gut. Maybe it was the flashing neon sign today saying “LAUGH” that made me unable to deliver. Call it performance anxiety, but today was the first day in a long time that I didn’t laugh at something. And, now, I think I know why:
I believe in laughter. I find things funny all the time. I have a running commentary racing through my mind that is always somewhat inappropriate, almost always racy and to me, really funny. I live to laugh. I love to laugh. The darker the situation, the better fodder for my humor. But ask me to find something funny and I can’t. Leave me to my own devices and I’ll bust-up at something silly. A funky doctor at The Mayo Clinic? Hysterical. An tongue-in-cheek work email to a senior executive? Drew roars of laughter. A random sign on the side of the road? Got it! Singing on top of the bar? Done it with belly laughs and cheers.
Like today’s Daily Challenge reminds me: Laughter is good for my health! Oh, I must be healthy then, I’ve got the laugh lines to prove it.
Here’s my formula for giving yourself a daily boost of good ‘ol belly laughter:
1. Finding humor and irony in everything is key. Even if you don’t tell a soul, the smile inside is what matters.
2. Give yourself permission to laugh the kind of laugh that make you look really ugly. You know, the kind where your makeup runs, mascara rolling down your face with tears, some crazy sounds coming out of you (I’ve been known to snort from laughter). Tell yourself it’s okay to bust-out.
3. Laugher is contagious. I find myself laughing sometimes because someone else is laughing and I have no idea why. My son laughs sometimes and I just sit there laughing my head-off because he’s laughing. Most of the time, I never know what the hee-hee-hees were all about. Who cares?
4. Don’t bother with crap that you think is supposed to be funny but isn’t. I can’t do comediennes or any live comedy shows. I refuse to pay for a laugh. I don’t like emails with jokes or stupid lawyer or “two lesbians walk into a bar” type jokes. That stuff isn’t funny to me. Find what makes you laugh and let ‘er rip.
5. Surround yourself with people that make you smile. I have a friend that makes me smile when I see her. It’s like having an automatic surge of good juju. A smile leads to a laugh and a laugh to a giggle and a giggle to a roar. Be afraid of people without a sense of humor. It’s not worth it.
My life is so full of good and bad and ugly and beautiful. In all these things I find something to laugh about, or at least give a good chuckle at. I hope you will too.
This post is inspired by and solicited by Me You Health and their Daily Challenge on Facebook that I find pretty darn fun.
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