Humor

A dear friend of mine suggested that I should "lighten up" and stop talking about depressing things like death all the time. Well, first of all, for those of you who read my previous blogs, I was not writing about death, but rather the celebration of life. And yes, there is nothing like recognizing our mortality to appreciate life all the more. That said, I agree it's time to lighten up. I want to talk about something funny.

Hmmmmm. What's funny? In today's world there just doesn't seem to be the humor there used to be. I know! I'll make something up, something so bizarre that it can’t help be funny. How about this? Let’s say there is a person who is a governor of a northern state. Let’s call her Sandy, just to give her a name. Sandy Painintheass. Now let’s say this person, with virtually no national recognition, is asked to be a vice presidential candidate. Already you can see the humor in this. Of course there is no reason why such a person would get this opportunity, so let’s go one step further and say she’s hot. In our society, that’s enough credentials for pretty much anything. Ha. That’s funny.

Now let’s say Ms. Painintheass does what would be predicted and makes a fool of herself in the campaign. Well, it’s so predictable that it really isn’t funny, so to add a humorous twist, let’s say she finally returns to her home state, defeated, and then…..resigns for no reason! Now that’s funny.

Just to get a little silly, let’s go on and say this person, Sandy P., decides to run for president. OMG, that is hysterical. But wait; let’s say, in the spirit of humor, THAT SHE WINS! HA! That is a gut buster. I know I’m in stitches. Of course this could never happen, unless we live in a society that values hot women over skilled leaders. Yeah, I know, we don't have any of those either so it's kind of a moot point.

That was fun. Let’s think about more funny stuff. Let’s suppose there was a man many years ago that was a truly righteous man. Let’s suppose further that this man, we’ll call him Andy, actually became the father of a great religion. Well, that’s not funny. In fact, that’s kind of cool. So what if Andy, in time, actually became the father of a second great religion? Not likely, of course, but still not funny. Just to push this to the point of absurdity, let’s suppose Andy actually became the father of a third great religion. I know, I know, it could never happen. But if it did, it would be really cool because all of these religions would believe in a single supreme being, they would all believe in a peaceful earth, and they would all believe in loving all human beings.

Well, this would be so cool that there is just nothing to laugh at. So just for fun, let’s say these three great religions spent centuries killing each other in the name of world peace. HA! Now we’re getting some humor. Can you imagine anything so utterly silly? Of course this is not realistic, unless we live in a society that allows a person to rule the whole free world simply because she’s hot. Oh, now we’re having fun.

Okay, one more just for the road. Remember when you were young, I mean very young, and learned how to bounce a rubber ball on the playground. That was fun. Some, of course, became better at bouncing that ball than others. So in the spirit of continuing our joviality, let’s say two such children grew up and started families. One, who labored hard each day, was told he was no longer needed and he and his family were driven from their home. Well, that’s not funny, that’s sad. Where the humor comes in is that we’ll pretend the other person, the one who learned how to bounce the ball really well, actually gets tens of millions of dollars for bouncing that ball and lives in a mansion only a few miles from where the first person had to vacate his home. Who can’t see the humor in that? If that doesn’t bust your gut, nothing will!

Ooooohhh, this has been fun. Humor is truly the best medicine.