There are times
when you find yourself in a very funny situation and you cannot hold back the
laughter that it causes. There are those
who can make a situation funny and those who make fun of a situation. The real fact of the matter is knowing when
to do which!
Within my life I
have found some professional “funny men” (and women) who only need to walk upon
the stage or scene of a play and I begin to laugh. They haven’t done anything yet, but I know
what they are about to do is going to be funny.
I’m going back a bit and there will be some of you who will have no idea
who I am talking about, but a few of these people who come to mind are Jonathan
Winters, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, and Joan Rivers.
These people were
just funny! It didn’t matter if they
were telling funny stories or appearing in some type of skit: they were JUST FUNNY! And their humor was not vulgar or demeaning
in any way.
But much of today’s
humor has to be sexual, racists, or hurtful in many other aspects. It attacks a person often in a very “put down”
kind of way. Just to get a “joke” or “poke”
at a person or their reputation some comedians will say almost anything. They may try to “apologize” later about it
stating that they didn’t mean what they said to be so hurtful, but it has
already been said. They can’t reach up
into the sky and drag the words back into their mouths and “erase” all the
hearing of those whose ears had their words ringing within them. No, they must try to make their statement
become, as if, they had said something different! Often that is impossible to do.
We have enough
bad, sad, and terrible things that are happening in the world. We do not need to add to our suffering by
making “jokes” about things that ARE NOT funny!
We need laughter to lighten our loads and make our hearts rejoice. We need to learn to be more considerate of
our fellow humans.
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHFUL GEM
"Be willing to laugh at yourself.
It may not change your situation,
but it may help you deal with it better."
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