Laugh Day

I am look­ing for­ward to the dozens of times I will laugh today. If you pay atten­tion to life, you will know where to look for the humor. Some of my favorite places to look are: peo­ple that take them­selves too seri­ously; insti­tu­tions with hid­den agen­das; cer­e­monies that leave no room for error; weather reports from last week; polit­i­cal pre­dic­tions from a month ago; peo­ple that “know best” for all oth­ers; chil­dren just being them­selves; my own illu­sions about what I think life should be and how I think it ought to go.

Rigid per­son­al­i­ties are con­tin­u­ally frus­trated. Noth­ing ever turns out like they think it should. The com­edy to be seen in their lives is in their never ques­tion­ing their own view­points. They just repeat the same old processes expect­ing dif­fer­ent out­comes. Watch­ing them try harder is worth an after­noon. The best enter­tain­ment out there is some “expert” pon­tif­i­cat­ing with too few facts. He or she pre­tends to con­nect the dots and hope oth­ers will fol­low along. The high­est salaries some­times go to the biggest fools. Hilarious!

Relax! Kick back! The best seat in the house is the back row of your own mind. Right now, you are in the midst of doing some­thing either funny or strange. You may not know it, but you are your own clown. Enjoy the humor of it all. Get enough dis­tance from your­self to see clearly where you are at any given moment. What you are doing right now may not make a lick of sense five min­utes or five hours from right now — or it may be the best thing you will do all day. You do not know. That is the humor of life. We see it back­wards but live it for­wards. Who­ever invented this has a huge sense of humor.

Go for a walk. Go for a drive. Zone out! The great­est insights come the moment you walk away from your seri­ous endeav­ors. It is that dis­tance from your desk to the cof­fee pot that the Uni­verse uses to inject its genius. Give it a chance. Behold life with no expec­ta­tions and see the bet­ter gift it is try­ing to give you…then giggle.