I truly enjoy a good laugh. Of all the things in life that one can pursue (wealth, fortune, fame, great sex, etc.), I much prefer a can’t breath, may fall down it hurts so much to feel so good laugh. Friends that can make you truly fall over gasping for air are few and far between. Meeting a person that brings out that quality is truly priceless. I pursue laughing and laughter at all times and in all places. Maybe it’s morbid to laugh in a funeral home or at the hospital, it’s also a comfort. Am I going to get sick and die some day? I sure as shit am, what’s the point in crying about it? Being able to see the humor in life’s tragedies enables me to get through it. Laughter is the deepest expression of true emotion.
Those that entertain and are entertaining can be devastatingly cruel or personally devastated. I think part of the attraction to humorous people is that they are wounded. There is some deep pain from which they cannot recover. They must reach inside themselves and tap the source sporadically to deal with the intensity of their emotions. The problem then is that you always feel a bit of that pain, it seasons your laughter. Perhaps it’s sarcasm, puns, or jocular kidding. Pain can be felt simultaneously with love, passion, and satisfaction enjoying the fruits of one’s labor. In humor, pain can be cutting, embarrassing, or harsh but it always eases someone’s personal situation.
There are few things as revealing as a person’s sense of humor, it is one way in which to be naked in font of the room. When you reveal the heartache, scorching wounds, and personal lows in a mocking manner you allow others to feel their own pain. The humorous person is a mercenary in that way. They have given something back and returned a favor as the audience enjoys the story and the showmanship they are also more attune to their personal hardships. It is in this way that what is real, what is sentiment, what made the trip, was laughing. It is the only amusement that can move you to the brink of tears. The hurtful, malicious, and lasting emotion is one true revelation we can all share. In life we are perpetually reliving our deepest and most sacred acts of personal pain. Humorous people react differently. They put it out there before it kills them inside. While the rest of us love to laugh, we never wittingly consent to the fact that what makes something funny or enjoyable is sharing a similar realization. Laughter, put simply is shared pain.
