But to be Full of Mirth

Laugh: Synonymous with amusement, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crack-up, crow, fit, gesture, giggle, glee, guffaw, har-de-har, hilarity, howling, laugh, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, roaring, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, snorting, sound, tehee, titter, tittering, yuck. Meaning of inner quality, mood, disposition suggestive of laughter-an expression or appearance of amusement or merriment.

Would we be human if we couldn't laugh? Would we truly be alive (and not just figuratively speaking?)

We've already been educated regarding the health benefits of laughter, but do we truly understand the depth of a guffaw?

"Life's weird, isn't it? Like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes when no one else does." - written to me recently in an email from a longtime friend...
The reply was, simply, "We were built to laugh at ourselves. If we didnt laugh at our own jokes the silence would swallow us whole....Its what keeps us moving forward. ...until....Until that one person laughs with us even if for only a chuckle. "

It is a life-force. Not just for vitals, but for human contact. If you could narrow people into groups, sense of humor would dictate. Type A people rarely have the same humor as B....or even AB.

It also dictates attraction. I know that, for me, if you cant laugh, you cant hang. There is absolutely no reason for me to engage in life with you if you dont find fart jokes, poo jokes, silly and sick things, situations, (and yourself) funny. Period.

It is a common bond in an uncommon world. When two people have seemingly no other earthly similarities...it is the noise from behind the smile. A laugh. Words get jumbled. Expressions are not reliable. Laugter is direct. Laughter is true.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Its a bit like a drug. People go to the gym for it....not PiYo or Nia...Laughing. And it works. People gotta have it.

But what happens when there is no laughter? What happens to the essence of the soul. Do you have a soul? Consider the antonym.....GLOOM. DISPAIR. Who wants to live there? Plenty do, but I wonder about the quality of their lives...or lack there of.

There are far too many things in this life and this world that cause dispair or are gloomy, but the person that can find the humor (aside from the irony) is truly blessed. If you cannot laugh you will do nothing but cry. Life, in essence, would cease to exist.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings