In our house i can often be heard telling Andrew that i am hilarious and he has no sense of humour. You see i am one of those people that make myself laugh more often than i make others laugh.
Be it silly songs or dances or just saying something that to me seems clever and/or cheeky i make myself laugh several times a day, most of the time Andrew just looks something between bemused and annoyed. True he is often the butt of the joke but no more often that i or the children are (of course there are many many reasons to laugh at the kids)
I feel lighter and yet fuller after a good laugh, i think that it is one of the best things that anyone can do for there heart and soul and i often feel sad for Andrew when he is slow to laugh.
Wikipedia says "Laughter is an audible expression or appearance of merriment or amusement or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure (laughing on the inside). " but it so much more than that.
- Laughter produces endorphins, the feel good hormone
- It has been shown to help protect the heart
- It lowers blood sugar
- It fights a lot of the bodies reactions to stress
There are even laughing groups and laughing workshops, i want to join a laughter group ....... mind you there is always YouTube thanks YouTube 'grin'
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I also tell Nick that I am hilarious and that he has no sense of humour (although Mam often rings up specifically to tell Nick jokes, because she thinks his laugh makes them funnier.)
So I was with you right up to the laughter workshops; I know you didn't say you wanted to join one, but they've always struck me as a little . . . sad. (I mean that denotatively, not as an insult; it makes me feel a little sad to think of laughter that seems shorn of its spontaneity.)
On the plus side: two children. The training of our childhoods is quite clear on this: children are there to be (affectionately) laughed at, especially if they get chased by ducks.
So maybe its actually the way that we were raised that gives us a higher than normal laughter ratio, because your right, children are there to be laughed at, thats one of the points of having children, or so i was taught :)
By the way i know i said that i wanted to join a laughter group and i agree that there is something a little sad about them when you think about it, but thats kind of why i want to join, maybe its not nearly as sad as it sounds
xx
But, ultimately, who needs laughter workshops when you can look at LOLcats on I Can Has Cheezburger? No-one can be entirely immune to the power of LOLcats, surely?
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