It’s when you need it most that you want it least

I don’t know about you, but for me it’s often when I need to laugh the most that I want to laugh the least! When life throws me challenges and messages that make me grit my teeth, that’s when I consciously use laughter to help me breathe and distance myself from the things that happen (or don’t happen). There’s nothing like a little silent laughter to empty your lungs and fill them with “new” air. Even if it only lasts a few moments, the effect is there.

It was Marcel Pagnol who said: “When you make people laugh on stage or screen, you don’t lower yourself, quite the opposite. Laughing at those who come home from the fields with their big hands so hard they can’t close them. Those who leave the office with their small breasts that no longer know the taste of air. Those who come back from the factory with their heads down, their nails broken and black oil in the cuts of their fingers. Make all those who will die laugh, make all those who have lost their mother or will lose her laugh… No, no, don’t speak ill of laughter… Laughter is a human thing, a virtue that belongs only to men and that God perhaps gave them to console them for being intelligent.”

Laughter, joy and health

Linda