"Laugh at life, laugh at yourself. Life ain’t all that serious until it is."
John Duffy
Sometimes we take life and ourselves a little too serious. We all know people who have no sense of humour and can't laugh at themselves. Maybe someone close to you? Really close?
I remember when I was going through one of the hardest and darkest periods of my life and it felt overwhelming and I decided to find a way to laugh at it and myself. I started to view my life as if I was in a Woody Allen movie and all the challenges I faced as just God having a little joke at my expense. It lifted the weight off of me and I started finding humour in anything life was throwing at me. And Lord knows it was throwing a lot at me that year. Soon I didn't have to work at it but it became my unconscious reaction to see the humour in situations.
One event stands out, I was driving home from the airport with a friend and while waiting for the red light to change a drunk driver smashed into us. We got out of the car and the driver drove off. My car was totaled and we we hurting physically and I started to laugh and my friend thought i was crazy and she asked me what I was laughing at and I replied, "no more car payments". I felt grateful in that moment to be alive and just shook my head and saw it all as a cosmic joke. i got through some worse events that summer and laughing at life and myself helped me through.
"Laugh at life, laugh at yourself. Life ain’t all that serious until it is." And when it is serious and life or death then recognize the difference and deal with it in the appropriate way.....
I continue to laugh at the struggles that I face in life.....
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