Some Serious Humor

As I've looked around lately, I've seen more and more people who are just really down right now. I recently asked one of the wisest women I know (props to Sharon S.) if she thought this was a normal thing to experience around my age. She told me that she thinks it has less to do with my age and more to do with the climate and culture around all of us right now. I don't mean, "oh we live in such a sinful world" and all the stuff you normally hear. I am talking about things that are really particular to right now.

To start with, we are in an election year which I guess means that everyone goes to every extreme to try to convince us all how horrible the world is because they think that will make us elect our favorite super hero to come in and fix everything. But stop and think about the kind of common discussions you hear lately. Gas prices making people fearful and forcing them to give up their normal pleasures in life; global warming out to singe us all; a neverending war that is killing tons of our friends and family; the foreshadowing of a possible economic depression; terrorists that are banging at our door just itching to get in and slaughter us... and the list goes on. Crisis after crisis. It is a climate of fear and discouragement.

Wise Woman then proceeded to talk about how now might be the time that we all need to focus on hope and just take life a lot less seriously for awhile (I am really really trying to keep this from turning into a "remember the little blessings in your life" email forward). It did make me think though about how maybe I need to try to have a little more fun and not get my panties all in a bunch over little nothings. I completely WASTE so much time and energy worrying, being fearful, obsessing, etc. And maybe I just need to stop. I need to stop and laugh at myself and probably at a few South Park episodes because they are the masters at putting some twisted humor on these serious issues (Don't judge me!).

Secret- Sometimes I feel like laughing at something way longer than is socially appropriate- after everyone else has already stopped. From now on I think I'm just going to risk it and laugh until I'm done!