As you grow, and you do grow, you begin to see and enjoy the comic aspects of life. Yes, comic. What you once took so very seriously, you no longer do. It’s like you play a game of solitaire, and you spread the cards out, and you can see how they present themselves, one after the other, in a sequence never dealt before. The cards fall into place, and they are just cards falling into place. Not serious at all.
Yes, life is comic. You have to admit this. Life is indeed a comedy. A lovely result of life is its laughter. Carry a laughter meter with you, and you will find out how you are doing in life. You can even laugh through your tears.
What in life is not comical? Or, perhaps, you prefer the word bizarre, or weird, or unpredictable. Isn’t what makes you laugh the unpredictable? Isn’t the punch line of a joke something you don’t see coming? There is even laughter again and again. Every time laughter is a surprise. And why not laughter?
You do not mock life, yet you do not take it so seriously. You can have a healthy respect for life and still not get run over by it.
Much of life is a mountain made of a mole hole. Is this not so in retrospect?
Oh, yes, starting now, don’t take life so seriously. Enjoy it instead. Enjoy life ahead of time, during its instant play. Enjoy the free-fall, and enjoy the thud. Go out into the world and seek your fortune. Your fortune is a sense of humor. Do you hear the Good Humor Ice Cream Truck now? Hear the bell of laughter ringing. Ting-a-ling. Humor coming up, one peal of laughter after another.
Laughter isn’t frivolous. It is a serious cure to what ails you. Stomp in laughter. Circle the sky in laughter. Life is worth a laugh. Laughter is a saving grace. Laughter puts a twinkle in your eye. Laughter is a perspective you come from. It works, for is not life as it pours itself out often absurd? Unbelievable? Remarkable? Laughable?
It has been said that life is a cosmic dance. Let Us think of life as a comic dance, a kind of free-for-all dance, a come-as-you-are dance. Pretty soon you won’t be able to stop laughing. You will have all kinds of laughter. The laughter where you say: “Humph.” And knee-slapping laughter, and tee-hee laughter, and you will have raucous laughter. You will have convulsive laughter, and you will have laughter that you don’t know why you are laughing.
You will wake up laughing, and you will go to sleep laughing, and your days will be laughter, laughter, laughter.
You will be a comedian in your own right. You will have more and more laughter like birds singing in the trees. Hearts will sing with laughter. Wherever you go, laughter will accompany you. It won’t be your shadow accompanying you – it will be your light! Laughter will light your way, and it will light the way of others.
All will put down what they have been carrying as burdens. Who needs them? What fun are they? Put your burdens down. There is no rule that you have to take burdens along with you. They are ballast you don’t need. Burdens are not your babies. You can leave them. Do not consider burdens and responsibilities as the same. It is responsible to not take life quite so seriously. Remember, there is a God. Give Me your burdens while you take care of your responsibilities and make them light as a feather. Whip out your responsibilities with lightness of heart. Pull out your sense of humor. Look at how love and laughter meet in your heart.