The definition my partner gave at breakfast one morning: humor is the ability to take a step back and look at something in a detached way, to offer a new perspective on things to yourself and other people.
It ultimately meets spirituality because you become the observer and don’t identify with your emotions and environment. It also allows you to speak out the unspeakable.
It reminded me of this video with Jim Gaffigan and his wife Jeannie, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor a few years ago and explains how they 'chose to fight with humor because it's a coping mechanism' and that sentence in particular really hit me:
'It just becomes a second nature to instinctually process information through that lens, you can either sit in the MRI for 2 hours freaking out about what's wrong with me, what's gonna happen, why are these noises so loud?! Or you can say: why is this so hilarious right now?! And it helps get through the trauma'.
Till and I loved the sentence so much, we wrote it down and put it on our kitchen wall with other kinds of affirmations #nerds
Humor is so much more than just a joke and I see humor as a way to
stay sane, a way to not get involved too much, a way to be in your
romantic relationship especially or any kind of interaction, a way to live!
Where can you find humor this week?
