What’s humor good for? Well, for anything! For a marriage, for a divorce and even for a funeral, because sometimes, only by laughing it off you can get over unfair “hits” from life.
Humor is a universal form of medication. When you try over and over again without getting too far, the best thing you can do is to have some humor, otherwise your defeats will bring you down.
It’s valid in love, at work, in the relationship with your kids or family, in anything.
Psychologists say that humor is an essential feature in a nice character. People with a good sense of humor are simply healthier, mentally and physically, and they’re also more pleasant and searched for in social groups.
In order to eliminate the drama from our lives, we have to constantly cultivate our sense of humor, to pay attention to nice and funny things around us, like a funny cat or a comedy show on TV, anything that can make us laugh.
Laughter is the supreme sign of health and intelligence. It’s also a sign of adaptability to stress.
Of course, there are situations which can’t be approached with humor because they’re simply dramatic, like someone’s death, and crying is also healthy in some cases because it’s a form of releasing pain.
However, after the shock is gone you have to search for the humor if you want to emotionally heal. If you’ve found the secret of laughter, no matter how hard a situation is, you’ll know you will survive.
Humor doesn’t mean that you’re laughing at what’s happening to you, it means that you understand what’s happening.
It’s the ability to see ourselves as we are, to see things in perspective, to be able to say “Is it really that bad?”.
Gather every bit of your strength and laugh. Life will always bring problems, stress, challenges that will almost bring you down, that will seem impossible to solve.
How can you laugh when you find out that you’re sick or that someone you care about has a problem?
Maybe in the moment you won’t be able to find anything amusing. But this cruel life sometimes deserves to be laughed at, you need to search for every way to recharge your batteries.
Humor is a great weapon you can use against an absurd universe.