Happystances

I wish life was simple enough that my goal could just be to make people laugh. I’d never make it as a comedian because that requires standing in front of people. Lots of people. Plus a lot of the jokes I make are about a previous joke with someone so the audience wouldn’t get it. I love making people laugh because when they laugh I get in a better mood too and laughter is the best medicine. There's hardly anything that laughter can't cure. Everyone has some sort of sense of humor and once you find it you can use it to make people happy. I've always had this desire that it was possible to bottle up laughs and store them away. I'd make a top-secret lair and collect the laughs of people around the world. It would have to be a pretty big top-secret lair so that "secret" part probably wouldn't work. Then, the lair could be made into a museum where people could just walk in and instantly feel better being surrounded by laughter. Laughter is contagious just like yawning and it spreads like a disease. But the good kind of disease. A lot of times I’m put in a better mood just by someone else laughing, even if I don’t really know them. The moments when you laugh until you cry and your ribs hurt from laughing so much are memorable ones; at least for me.

This is my biggest problem with internet communications: people can say “Haha I’m laughing” but I can’t see them so it’s not as satisfying. It may seem sort of self-centered but I want to make someone else laugh so that I feel better too. But that’s the Trufax (like Carfax but for truth instead of cars) about how I feel about that. Too often my mom can tell when I’m talking to people online because I smile when I am; talking to my friends makes me happy and I guess it’s a subconscious thing that I do. Even (heck especially) when I’m sad I still try to make other people laugh as much as I can because I feel like if I go one day without making at least one person laugh then the day was pretty much a waste. Plus laughing at someone laughing is pretty fun too. One thing I wish I could know how to do is keep a straight face. When someone says something really funny with a straight face it makes it even funnier because they look completely serious. My old soccer coach tried to teach me how to keep a straight face (we pretended it was some sort of class) and I failed miserably.

The greatest thing about laughing is that no matter how much you do it, it doesn’t get old; you can’t get bored of laughing unless your laughs are faked. Every time there’s the rush of happiness and laughing too often doesn’t diminish that feeling. It’s like a bar of chocolate that never runs out. You can never get tired of eating chocolate and even if you do get a little tired of it you can always give it to other people. I’m starting to realize a lot of my analogies are food-related. I feel like Liz Lemon. And I know my title is stupid as usual, I can never think of good ones. It's like the word "happenstance" but with "happy" instead of "happen"...