HUMOUR

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.”