Humour in Daily Life
A sense of humour is the most essential
and inevitable factor in one’s life. People without humour can only be in a
constant irate condition.
Finding humour in daily drudgery is an
art. No malicious, unpleasant person can do that. Such incongruous people have
wit more dominant in their nature rather than humour. Wit is the ally of a cunning and sharp mind.
It has a tinge of acid to it and usually strikes sharp like a dagger. Whereas,
humour is the dancing of happy thoughts like a beautiful stream down the
mountainside. It is gurgling, bubbling, cool, refreshing and soothing. Humour
brings delight and laughter, a beautiful smile on otherwise unpleasant
countenance.
“A sense of humour is a house
slave’s salvation. In a housewife’s life, with its variety of dull and serious
situations, a sense of humour is a necessity if living is to rise above sordid
drudgery. A woman’s life will be sorry thing if she lacks a sense of humour and
a pleasant disposition.” ------- John Schindler.
Because a sense of humour is a diversion,
a quick release from the most intolerable situation. It is a diversion of
thoughts and feelings that may otherwise make you a sour, shadowed personality
that can only reflect melancholy and pain.
“If I had no sense of humour, I
should long ago have committed suicide.” ------- M.K.Gandhi.
An attempt to bring humour and sweetness
in our life can change the entire perception of life. It is the determination
to bring back the warmth and love in our lives from the troublesome
obstructions at every curve of life. It will enable us to enjoy every minor
joke of life, how life twists and turns and how it brings about the most
pleasant moments in its tiny crevices.
It teaches us to laugh on
ourselves, to realize the importance of humility and to relieve ourselves from
the ego that stands in the way of every sort of enjoyment, of happiness, of
fulfillment.
Humour is to discover life, without which,
no other sense can be as affective, no life can be enjoyed. And as John
Schindler comments further,
“If you can’t enjoy
yourself,
What on earth can you
enjoy?”
A most essential factor in human
nature, but still the most ignored one.
Humour is not easy for all. For those who take life too seriously,
for those who believe they are the sole
responsible persons on earth, and for those who believe that laughing and
making merry is a loser’s domain. Serious, responsible people do not need to
feel happy or laugh in public. It is out of etiquette. But that is what makes
them snobbish and not contented happy beings. An excerpt from an article
published in the ‘Times of India’ clearly takes the point through.
“Humour can sink many
ships.
Laughter is a serious
business.
It is a universal
language.
Humour, say modern
thinkers, pits hope against despair.”
