OK so my brother wants a 500 word blog off.. And our topic is laughter.. Or joy.. we couldn't decide.. So here goes!
I need to laugh so much. I can only stay on the path of pain for so long before I need to laugh. Like really who can carry around all those rocks of grief, pain, betrayal, anger without just needing to eventually laugh that shit off!
If I look at my life it's pretty hilarious really. My family has this horrendous disease called Huntingtons Disease, that's been named the worst disease known to mankind. My ex-husband is married to my ex-best friend. I parent 4 kids on my own. I work my butt off keeping a family home functioning, which involves a lot of boring stuff like picking up dog shit.. for a dog that my kids insisted they NEEDED! Because you know I didn't already have enough peeps to look after! Life is so crazy sometimes that the only thing I can do is laugh!
I think my biggest laughing teacher was my mum. I'll never forget times during her years of sickness where she would fall on the floor, when she couldn't walk anymore and she would laugh and laugh at me trying to pick her up. Not funny.. But somehow absolutely hilarious! Or times I would be changing her toileting pads (yes really not funny at all!) but she would crack herself up laughing at the mess! I would be in horror, which she would then find even more hilarious. Life is so freaking messy sometimes. Literally.
My work colleagues always say they hear me laughing down the other end of the corridor at work. I love making my students laugh in class. We have such a fantastic time talking about really traumatic topics like child abuse, domestic violence, suicide.. Which are not funny topics at all!! But I will make sure we have a laugh every single class. Because it feels good to laugh. And we all deserve to feel good, even when life is hard.
What I find sooooo funny though is how humiliated my kids are by my loud public laughter, which then just makes me laugh even more. I absolutely hate shopping centers.. but they will often drag me there to get things they desperately "NEED" I find this the most torturous experience with all those lights, music, chaos, decisions.. so many shops! I grew up with trees..it is not natural for humans to go into this kind of environment!! It is so painful it makes me laugh. I need stress release! As the kids are deciding between shoes, hats, shirts, socks I just can't help but laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. Which is then followed by long begging pleading sound "muuuuuuuum!!" ...as they get as far away from me as possible. Which makes me laugh even more!
Life is so serious peeps. We HAVE to find stuff to laugh about. Let's laugh in the face of all the shit (literal shit at times)
The human race only has one really effective weapon and that is laughter" Mark Twain.
