”Have you ever ever seen that anyone driving slower than you is an fool, and anybody going sooner than you is a maniac.” – George Carlin
So, I used to be watching one of many seemingly a whole lot of commercials hawking a brand new drug that does no less than a number of issues we all know are unhealthy.
My query is, after they inform us to not take a drug if we’re allergic to it, how do we all know we’re allergic to it if we haven’t taken it earlier than?
Am I lacking one thing, or am I simply feeling just a little George Carlin?
It appears now we have lots of contradictions nowadays, and only a few solutions.
I’m discovering that life has develop into manner too sophisticated. What to observe on TV, what with a seemingly countless array of issues to distract us from our troubles and people troubles round us.
We right here on the Information & Eagle consistently are informed we want extra good tales within the paper. But, each time we do surveys, nearly with out fail, the most-read tales are about unhealthy issues that occur to folks.
It makes me take into consideration one other Carlin quip, wherein he says, “Some folks see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as massive because it must be.”
My level to all that is, we don’t chuckle sufficient. We generally take all the things too significantly.
Not saying there aren’t issues we shouldn’t take significantly, it’s simply we shouldn’t take EVERYTHING prefer it’s life and loss of life.
Snigger, and the world will chuckle with you.
I’m positive I heard that someplace.
“Snigger, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and also you weep alone; For the unhappy previous earth should borrow its mirth, However has hassle sufficient of its personal.” — Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
OK, sufficient somber. I’m wanting to have a look at laughter, and the place it got here from, the way it impacts us — properly, a few of us.
We’ve got lots of politicians and would-be politicians nowadays that might use a fairly giant dose of laughter — and laughing at.
The definition of laughter is simply too straight ahead and stiff for me: to point out emotion with a chuckle or explosive vocal sound.
I don’t suppose you’ll be able to actually, actually clarify laughter and the place it comes from down deep in our being, that we are able to all of a sudden discover the oddest issues humorous, get away in smile or laughter, and in some instances, fully lose it laughing.
You understand, can’t-breath laughing.
I’ve completed that quite a lot of occasions in my life — fully lose it laughing, and I seemingly simply can’t cease laughing.
The place does that come from?
Did our most historic ancestors, whereas out looking a woolly mammoth, bust out laughing when Ralph, the goofy caveman within the group of 5 hunter-gatherers, throws his home made spear and hits the poor beast within the rear finish, and the remainder of the group falls down laughing so arduous they’ll’t proceed?
As human beings, laughter could also be our most indescribable, immediately obtainable emotion.
I don’t know why, however I’ve all the time fairly loved these generally temporary moments in very critical motion pictures, when out of nowhere a somber scene is ever-so-briefly interrupted with a personality making gentle of a scenario — bringing a smile or a chuckle to everybody within the scene — and everybody watching.
I discover it fascinating that I’m drawn to these scenes in motion pictures.
There’s a scene within the film “The Highwaymen,” with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, in a film that’s 100% critical in regards to the looking down and eventual killing of the notorious outlaw duo Bonnie and Clyde.
Harrelson is sitting on a small-town bench, within the depths of the Nice Despair, ready to be or not be requested by Costner — enjoying dour Texas Ranger Frank Hamer — and after going over all his faults, Costner stares at Harrelson and tells him to get within the automobile, however he can’t drive and no singing.
Don’t know why, however Costner’s character — who’s deadpan critical all through the film, and rightly so — will get a quick however discernible wry smile on his face, and it completely makes the film for me.
The identical with Tom Hanks’ because the deadpan Military Ranger captain in “Saving Non-public Ryan,” the place he has a number of moments in maybe essentially the most critical film of our time — the Invasion of Normandy throughout World Conflict II — and makes me smile and makes me chuckle.
It’s breaking apart the extreme drama of the movie.
It’s the identical in our lives, once we are going about our day by day routines, and one thing out of the blue hits our humorous bone.
My spouse, God love her, can get away in uncontrollable laughter at sure issues I say, sure conditions.
I suppose, down deep, I all the time wished to be a comic.
Or, with apologies to Monty Python, I wished to be a lumberjack … and I’m OK.
Christy is information editor on the Enid Information & Eagle. Go to his column weblog at www.tinyurl.com/Column-Weblog.