Monday, August 5, 2013

Laughter is like a Hurricane





    Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Stephen King

A note from Cynthia...

Laughter. It's a smile, gone supernova.

Some say that humans are the only species on the planet that laugh. Whether that's strictly true, I'm not sure (have you ever seen a bonobo being tickled?), but laughter is certainly a core piece of what makes us human.

It's kind of a hard thing to define, isn't it? And I think-no, strike that. I feel like it's also part of our divine nature, too. Not just everyday "ha-ha" good humor, but also the kind of laughter King is talking about in the quote today. The kind Robert Frost is talking about with his quote "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane." That kind of laughter seems to come from a place beyond the ego, and it somehow allows us to let go of struggle and really laugh at ourselves.

Do you remember your last stomach-clenching-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?

With hugs, smiles, and lots of laughter too,

Cynthia


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