Humor in Life

Humour in Life.

When I was a small kid, we kids would gather around the playground and then at the designated time, would all run around it as fast as we could. The child who ran around the most number of times won.

That sounds like a great game. But who won? We didn’t know!

Do you ever get so caught up in your goal that you forget to enjoy the process? It's the process of doing things that's important.

Once, I used to sit at the bedside of a dying friend, while he reviewed his life. It was sad when he looked back and realized he had missed opportunities in his life because he was focused on the wrong things.

Oscar Wilde said, "Life is too important to be taken seriously."

It is all about the balance of our focus.

Our lives are measured by many things. Career, Success, Relationships, Education, Families and Wealth. But each of these is connected to how we live our life. We are all guilty of focusing on the wrong things now-and-again.

Look for humour.
A headline in The Hindu once said, "Long life dies at low cost" Now that's funny, it was about dyes.

Or a caution on a Tooth brush carton- Do not dip in Hot water- Made in India

Had I not been looking, I would have never seen it. Keep your eyes open for humor in your life. Laughing and making people laugh; I presume, is a healthy way of spending your free time. I am attempting just that in all that I write in these mails.

There is something to be said for people laughing at you. Sometimes people laugh at me not realizing that I was getting the result from them that I was looking for. For example, let's say that I hit my thumb with a hammer. Now, to an average person it would appear that I had an unfortunate accident although it would not prevent them from laughing at me. They would say something like, "Why did you do that?" and I, not wanting to appear to be a complete buffoon, would answer, "I thought someone would laugh at me." This always worked well in making life easier to live.

Now, think of a situation, where in I relate an incident about a fellow saikorian hitting himself on the thumb with a hammer, we could always laugh at that incident, but the saikorian himself may not be as amused. It depends on how focused he is about humour.

Have you ever slipped and fallen on a banana peel or wet floors? Have you ever bumped your head or stubbed your toe? What did the people around you do? They laughed at you didn't they? Of coarse they did, it's only natural.

Oh the things we do to make people laugh. A very good saikorian friend of mine was once down on his luck, stressed in life and was feeling pretty ding dang blue. I thought it would be nice to cheer him up so I wrote an article about a real life funny incident at school, in which he was a part of it. It was meant purely to cheer him up. I knew he would appreciate the humor. But his balance of focus tilted the other way. He turned red as red can be, fortunately we were separated by the Atlantic Ocean and many miles. He picked up his phone and called me all sorts of names with a slang we find in American movies. I cannot print all that was said, but an example is M***** F*****. I just listened staring at the wall for all time and then became so overwhelmed with the jocularity of the situation that I laughed aloud at him. I totally forgot about that incident, but that saikorian crossed The Atlantic and many miles, recently and complained to our common saikorian friends here.

You see, it's all about getting folks to laugh. No, let me rephrase that, it's all about me getting folks to laugh. Sorry Ramaiah(864) and a big Thank you for being my BAKRA of the year.