Urbanized Dolphin

Stress can make you way uptight. Humor is its prescribed medication.

Humor is the only thing that makes us sane in our crazy assed and unmerciful plane of existence. Humor fills out what we lack in life. It makes us smile even if were dirt poor. It makes us laugh even if were a paraplegic eating out of a tube.It makes life easier to bear. I cannot emphasize on how much we owe our life’s temporal contentment with humor, comedy, laughter, wit. I mentioned temporal contentment, well we are just humans. We are cursed beings that have insatiable appetites. Nobody is really content in what they have; those who say that they are just know how to lie (convincingly) to themselves.

Comedy is the air that prolongs our temporal contentment. Humor is the filler between our temporal happiness. It links the gap. Why the hell am I talking about this?

Yesterday I had a written tussle with a couple, both friends of mine that goes way back during high school. It was a pretty heated debate, so heated up; I got IM’s from batch mates and friends whose either agreeing with me or trying to pacify the involved parties.It started when my guy friend posted (on our alumni email group) that our dear high school Alma Mater has yet another fund raising project, probably another worthy cause but should be inquisitively questioned, and that they need the support of the alumni’s by buying tickets to some raffle event or something resembling that idea.The post clearly stated that if you’re really concern then read on BUT if you have nothing relevant and no helpful comments then don’t bother to reply).

Well he didn’t exactly write that word by word but that’s basically the gist of what he was trying to say or something to that effect.The rebel slash joker that I am, wit overcame me, forced me to jokingly reply “can I swipe it?” pertaining on buying tickets with a credit card. I meant it as a joke. But my guy friend retaliated sarcastically and what I perceived as with malicious intent, that some people, educated people who graduated college just don’t understand simple instructions. He got furious at my comment… But he didn’t have the balls to say it directly. He made a general sarcastic remark.

I found it funny… at first.

But then it hit me. Was he judging me and questioning my academic integrity and achievement? So what if I’m a college graduate that commented with a joke that he obviously didn’t get? Does it lessen my intellect? Was I less intelligent for having said that? Or is he saying that I’m not worth my college degree because I made fun on a “mighty” cause that deserves the highest respects and should be taken with insurmountable level of seriousness that no one should even dare make fun or get humor from it?I confronted him in writing. I asked him if he was angry and if he was just say so. I didn’t get any reply from him. But I did get a couple of emails from his better half. This female friend defended her partner. She pointed out that if I have nothing good to say then I shouldn’t have even bothered saying anything. If I’m not a help for the cause then I shouldn’t be commenting on the subject was her firm words. In a series of exchanged emails, my witty comment about “swiping it” (which I assure everyone that it’s not malicious and meant to be delivered in a tasteful and humorous manner) became a big obstruction for their fund raising cause.

It became a big deal. Wow… I said to myself. These guys are uptight. I know the logic that what may be funny to you may be offensive to others. But for god’s sake, it was a one liner punch line, a remark that points out to no one specifically. It only meant to play on the idea if they were accepting credit cards to the tickets that they are selling (how cool is that if they do! Lolz).I asked them this… How sure are they that the cause that they are willing to be stressed out for and makes them transforms into winded uptight individuals is really worth all the hassle?

What I’m trying to say is, my most obvious point, IT WAS JUST A JOKE. Everything in Life is subjected comedy. Everything is, can and will be the source of humor and laughter. Nothing is divine in comedy, even God Himself, but most of all our own self. In order to make fun of something and someone, one must be willing to make fun of themselves.

Guys… Lighten up… Seriously uptight persons won’t sell any tickets. They probably will but that’s because it’s out of pity.

Peace….. And I do hope that every single day, at least once, laugh and make fun of something.