Everyday Canvas

That Sense of Humor!

Prompt: Sense of Humor
“Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.”
Do you use that comedic view for the ills in your life? And how successful is it?

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Having a sense of humor is a successful approach to things that may go wrong. Someone who applies this idea well is WebWiԎch is Thankful . If you have read her hilarious newsletters you’ll agree with me. Only she would make a hip replacement sound like a lark.

Unlike WW and others with a great sense of humor, I need crutches to face the downers of life. I, therefore, have accumulated a few tips from Facebook and other sources that remind me not to take the negatives too seriously.

One of them by my desk is: “When something goes wrong in your life just yell, ‘Plot Twist!’ and move on.” Even though my voice box is worn out from yelling Plot Twist, there is so much truth to the idea there. If I treat most anything foul as if it is a plot twist in the fiction of my life, I stop seeing it as an earth-shattering disaster.

Another one is on the bathroom mirror at which I stare while combing my hair in the morning. It says: “We all know mirrors don’t lie. I am just grateful they don’t laugh.” This makes me chuckle every morning and sends me into the unknown pitfalls of a day with a positive attitude and a sense of humor.

I also printed out some of the Aunty Acid cartoons to circulate them on the kitchen wall. Aunty Acid may be an acrid lady, but she always finds a way to put a smile on my face.

While some of us have an inborn sense of humor, others of us like me need reminders not to take life too seriously. After all, it is: “Don’t sweat the small stuff; everything’s small stuff.”