“God is a comedian performing for an audience afraid to laugh” is a quote from Francois Marie Arouet that has kept me thinking. Recently some of my friends were telling me tragic tales, stuff that I felt very sad and angry about I could feel the fire burning in my chest, I could feel my perspectives on issues altering, I could feel myself getting angry. What is interesting is that at the end of the conversation we were laughing. If there is something we are good at is laughing at very bad situations we are in.

It got me thinking, why do we laugh at these bad situations? someone might say it helps us get over things or it makes the issue lighter but I tend to disagree. What if we laugh because these sad things are supposed to be funny. Think about it… What is the funniest thing that you have ever seen, I’m not talking giggle funny, I am talking rolling on the ground rib cage in pain funny. I bet it was something that was sad for someone else, embarrassing for someone else at the least. Like that time Johnny peed his pants or when Adim fell face first into the snow or the time you saw someone passed out under the table at a club. Those are all situations that are ridiculous, well mostly for you. I found that the best comedians are the ones that make fun of our life issues, things that all of us can relate too and then paint a ridiculous story over them. Even in the Bible it says in all situations give THANKS to God, how can you thank God for your car being totaled?… unless your not supposed to see it as a bad thing but a situation to something greater.

So if our ability to find something funny is based on the perspective we look at the issue from and not that the issue itself is funny or sad then what if we are not supposed to get angry or sad in tragic times, maybe we are always supposed to look at the good in all situations. Sometimes I feel we humans take ourselves too seriously. Don’t get me wrong I feel we should allow ourselves to get upset for sometime to let the emotion out but but as my friends do, quickly find the comedy within this sadness and move on. Do not be afraid to laugh.