Laughter, Laughter, Laughter.....Statistics prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that laughter helps the chronically ill to live a longer and more fulfilling life. I know this, I've lived this motto for a very long time, but MS, as any disease, can make it very hard to laugh, really laugh!
You know that laugh that makes your face hurt and your belly ache?
What I'm finding, is that once you stumble into the darkness created by the daily struggle to get through the day, it is much harder to pull yourself out of the cave and back into the light.
The key is to recognize when you're slipping, and give yourself a big, giant, shot of straight up comedy. If I can't be funny, I'll search it out. "Yeah, that's what I'll do....I'm gonna find funny stuff, like, oh I don't know,.......people falling down."
With this brilliant idea, I rushed to the T.V. to find America's funniest Home Videos......."There's always someone falling on that show" I tell myself. Sure enough, this episode was chock full of falls.....old people falls, young people falls, I don't care. I have not, and will never discriminate about how funny the fall is by who the "faller" is. I'm proud of that!
So I laughed, really laughed, and I said to myself, "Self, you gotta get your comedy, I don't care how you get it, just get it!"
So thanks to you Betty White, for cracking me up, thanks to the "Delicious Dish" sketch for innocently talking about your muffin and how you keeps it from beeing Dry and Cracked"
This lack of laughter is one of the things in my life I can control, and, although I know I'll slip into the darkness again, I now know that seeing a person walking into a glass door has more power over me than I ever knew.
Cut To Me: Does this mean I have to feel guilty about thinking people falling down is absolutely hysterical? Probably!
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