I admit it — I’m a dork. I love puns, and I easily laugh at silliness. This serious business of having a human experience calls for all the levity we can muster. Holy Joviality!
I can feel much more gratitude for a situation when I can find that absurdity, whether overt or hidden. It makes the issue less personal, and more from a temporary reality. I’m referring to generalities here—there are certainly times when finding the humor would be both extremely difficult and enormously inappropriate. Even there, though, I can find humor in some of my reactions, though usually in retrospect.
Today, I’ll turn those wonderful Emily Latilla comments into my mantras, from stopping the violins to visualizing whirled peas (though I’m not sure that was hers).
And whenever I can, I’ll smile sweetly and utter her famous catchphrase: Nevermind.
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