In the end, whenever you are stressing or lost in your thoughts of gloom or doom, pain or despair, and the rest of life's less lovely moments, there is always the opportunity to laugh.  Laughter is the tonic for the ills and grays of Earth.

            Laughter has in fact been designed as a potent antidote to angst.  When the human being began to evolve, there was no such remedy.  Life was short, brutal and animalistic.  As Homo Erectus dawned, a new option arose: humor.  This was a wondrous - we'd even say, miraculous - thing.  To be able to stand aside from the self and look at its dilemma is both the start of self-awareness and the chance to know your own duality.  It is in this instant that the human being becomes truly human, for in seeing yourself from another perspective - as though a part of you were standing apart - you come to know your challenges, your passion... and above all, your foibles.  

            There, that's it!  The human foibles - the flaws, weaknesses, mistakes, and stumbling - the proverbial "feet of clay" - are the human's best guard against overwhelming despair.  Only those who take their lives too seriously are thus in danger of perpetual suffering.  But those who can step aside and laugh - laugh at the pain even - are the blessed.  Their laughter will bring light back.

            Are you such?  Can you look at the missteps that have brought you to your endless mess?  Can you laugh at it?  Can you shake your head and say, I'm only human.  That is the very thing you can do now.  It won't solve the problem but it will change the perspective.  Evil is foiled by mirth.  Darkness can't sustain itself in a mind filled with joy.  So bring more laughing into your life, and see the smiles increase, the load lift, and the whole sky brighten.

 

© 2015 by Judi Thomases