Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Let's face it.
Life is a cruel joke. No matter how many times you scream at the top of your lungs that 'LIFE SUCKS', apparently wishing for a kind soul to appear between pixie fairy dust and gently ensuring you that it's not, you know more than anybody in the world that it is indeed true. And since this isn't Chicken Soup For Your Soul and there is simply no fairy Godmother to put a comforting arm around your shoulders, you gotta accept the hard truth - LIFE IS A CRUEL JOKE.
It is a string of progressively twisted events that test our character, our fortitude and sanity. True, it has its thrills and joys, but those are only temporary and ephemeral. On the seemingly endless road of life there are only a few rest stops along the way - one at the beginning of childhood, one at the end of secondary school, and one at the beginning of retirement. The rest of the stretch is a series of bumps, potholes, and falling meteors, particularly at puberty and middle age, where self-esteem isn't part of your vocabulary.
That is why God created cancer and old age, to mercifully end our meaningless existence, lest we eventually get reduced to a blubbering pile of half comatose ooze, whimpering and crying silently in a small corner of the world.
And this is why laughter was invented.
Comedy is that small bush at the side of the road where you can take a piss after an especially tiresome day. People that laugh seem much saner. Of course, that makes them more vulnerable to those violent, crushing tragedies that seem to proliferate as you get older, but the humor more than makes up for it. I think that one of the reasons why humans have evolved so far is our ability to make light of the situation, to poke fun at themselves, to giggle mindlessly whenever the hell you feel like it.
There are two ways to live life. You can take it as it comes, weathering each storm with courage and determination. If you can do that without losing your mind, then you deserve to keep your sanity. Truly, you are a better person than most.
As for me, i choose to see each day as another opportunity for me to laugh myself silly until the snot squirts out my nose. And it's sort of a cynical, bitter laughter, not so much at the hilarity of a given situation, but at life in general. It's good to put things in perspective and smile a little at the general frivolity of it all.
Because i've found out that if you dun, you're just gonna turn yourself into a mass of vomited flesh. Especially when you realise that the world at large is giving you all the attention you need, but the one little person you want care and concern from, dun even notice you.
See the humour in it?
So go on.
LAUGH.
You'll live longer.Trust me.
9:33 PM
