Laugh at life

Humor helps you see the familiar from a surprising new perspective.

It reminds you that there is no grand truth.

Any belief can be up-ended.

Every belief can be mocked.

Nobody knows anything.

See?

Laughing is subversive.

A bad situation can feel all-consuming.

A laugh shows you’ve escaped.

Humor puts distance between an event and yourself.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Time belittles anything by showing it’s not as bad as it seemed.

Humor does that instantly.

To laugh at something is to be superior to it.

Humor shows internal control.

Humor means using your mind beyond necessity, beyond reality, for both noticing and imagining.

That’s why we admire a quick wit.

It shows you quickly looked at something from many angles, found the one that amused you the most, and considerately expressed it to someone else.

Observation, creativity, and empathy, all in an instant.

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