Tip of the Day: Laugh a Little!
It seems to me that the world is becoming more and more morose these days. It’s not entirely surprising with the news advertising more and more violence and killing and terrorism and war…it’s depressing. I mean, I miss those days when a story about cute little polar bears still made headline news. Oh wait, such a headline DID make news today! Here in Canada, in fact:
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=394c1167-3ad5-45be-805d-32ae19be9545
Apparently, little (26 year-old, 1200lb “little”) Kunik the polar bear was euthanized because of an infection with West Nile. So I stand corrected, polar bears DO still make it into the news.
Regardless, a blanket of depression seems to be descending and I think that it’s detrimental and more damaging than some people may think. An outlook on life is a very influential thing when it’s negative and shared by a good percentage of people.
As a cynic myself, I can understand why it’s easy to go the negative route in your thinking, but you’d be surprised at just how benefitial it can be to keep a good dose of humour in our lives. Cynicism is fine, but if you completely remove any sort of enjoyment from life then you just end up completely depressed and then you may as WELL commit suicide because you’re wasting oxygen.
That’s why it’s good to keep your sense of humour alive, happy and healthy, even if you’re not. This can be achieved in a few different ways. Some people resort to video games, others resort to drugs.
My favourite method is to find yourself a webcomic (I suggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Order of the Stick…look around and find your favourite) or an internet site that offers good humour on a daily basis, and then make sure that you work it into your morning routine. If you use Firefox, set it as one of your homepages so it opens in a tab when you start up, or set it up as part of your schedule for the absolutely fantastic add-on called Morning Coffee (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2677/). If you don’t use Firefox, you’re dead to me. No, just kidding; in that case you can still set it to your homepage or use Internet Explorer 7 and then have it open in a tab almost like in Firefox.
So don’t forget to take a break from life here and there for a good laugh. Just because there are depressing things in this world, it doesn’t mean you should let them take you down with them. Remember that laugher truly is the best medicine.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Yes, I’ve tried the drugs/alcohol thing..from experience, it doesn’t do the trick.