Laughter

In season 4, episode 7, Brenda from the series ‘Young Sheldon’ talks about her son Billy’s first day at school - ‘every time the Spanish teacher said sí, Billy asked see what?.’

And to this she concluded – ‘I know, but if I don’t laugh about it, I’ll cry!’

 

And so it is, or so I discovered that things are. In life, plenty of things can go wrong or incredibly sideways. When you feel powerless or don’t know what to do, better to start laughing at the situation than cry about it. 

Anyway, we cannot control everything, but we can laugh. And laughter gives us strength to go on, to try once more, to not give up, to not give into despair or depression. I remember having read this somewhere about depression and I liked it:

‘How do you steer away from depression?’

‘I laugh. When depression wants to kick in and sees me laughing, it thinks I’m stupid, so it moves on to the next fellow.’