I hear laughter in the rain....

[JustDee]

well, it seems I have blogged everyday since I started to blog here, so although I don't have anything in particular I feel the need to get off my chest, a lot has been going on in my life these last few days. Something very unexpected... I feel better.

I have laughed more in the last few days then I have ever laughed in my life and it was more cathartic then crying ever was. The act of being able to look at my life and actually laugh at myself and my idiocy at times... I am NOT putting myself down, I am simply stating a fact. I have been such an idiot at times. I have just felt so sorry for myself and my "lot" in life that I haven't always been able to get through the hard times,...well, I got through them, obviously, but not gracefully.

Here is the thing.. this morning, or rather this afternoon, I woke up a new person. My name is the same.. I am still in the same body...but the person I was yesterday is gone.

I have decided that I am going to laugh from now on.. there is a movie that I guess recently came out. I saw the trailer for it, but I havent seen the movie, I plan on it though. The plot is basically that this man that says "NO" to everything decides he is going to say "YES" to everything for 1 year. Apparently it opens up his whole life.

Well, I'm not retarded, so I don't plan on saying "yes" to EVERYTHING, but I do plan on saying yes to more things. YES to friendship, Yes to loving, YES to laughing, OMG, YES to laughing.. because I cannot believe how damn good it feels to laugh. I think it is even better then sex. I am going to laugh with my kids and my husband and my friends.. I am going to laugh when I want to cry.

I use to laugh alot when I was younger... but my grandmother use to tell me.. "only crazy people laugh as much as you do".. so I think I forgot how to laugh... no, I didn't foget.. I just stopped laughing and I let all the crap that life throws at us overwhelm my funny bone.. Well grandma.... if laughing too much means your crazy,, then I guess I will be effing crazy...

I am not going to worry about what people think about me. I am not going to worry about looking silly and if my husband and kids want to roughhouse, then I am going to throw myself right into the middle of it instead of going to my room to hide from the laughter...

Wow...all this time, I really thought I had to cry it out,, and believe me,, that was hard enough... it just never occurred to me that laughing would be so much better...

so much for not having anything to say...

[JustDee]

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb

[photo2010]

I think a sense of humor is a must to survive this life. It's not always easy..but I praise your new way of looking at life! ;)

[spacemonkey1310]

They say laughter is the best medicine. I think they're probably right : )

[SydTheSkeptic]

I don't know where I heard it, Dee, but I've felt it to be true ever since- laughter holds the same power for release as crying does.

[JustDee]

All are welcome to join the laughter parade... hmm,, how about we call it the "laughter brigade" I think I will start a new forum.. we can all posts funny jokes or stories on it...hmmm,,, maybe when I get home from work.. thanks for the idea sedona...