Life's Lessons

The simple lessons are often the most rewarding. Laughter is a gift. It washes away anger in the same way rain washes away dust. It breeds friendship and dilutes hostility. Seeing humor in situations is an art for some people but for me it takes a little practice, I am sometimes a little slow on the willingness to laugh. To enjoy laughter I need to speed up that willingness. I laugh at myself as much as I laugh at anyone or anything. Sometimes I may be the only one who thinks something is funny but that to makes me laugh. I used to make a big deal out of everything, always looking for perfection or a way to control the situation and that seemed to cause a lot of stress and failure. I leaned to accept the fact that my failures were usually in full view and my successes almost always in private so I just learned to laugh at them both.
The skill of laughter is not in the emotion but in the ability to keep it going through life, in success and failure. One can always find sorrow in the world, finding joy takes a little more effort and the best thing about joy is it comes with no expiration date!