This I Believe

Monday evenings on NPR they have a segment called "This I Believe". If you are not familiar with the segment, they invite people to write essays with the topic "This I Believe". The select certain ones to be read on the air. Most of the essays are from well-known people. But they do invite listeners to to submit their own essays. The one I heard tonight was from a listener and it was so good it inspired me to write my own. Here you go. This I believe. I believe I am the funniest person I have ever met. Whether I am having a conversation with friends, at work in a meeting, writing on my blog or taking a shower, I manage to crack myself up. At times, has proven to be very embarrassing. But most of the time, it keeps me happy and healthy. In my humble opinion, if you can’t find something to laugh at in any situation you aren’t trying hard enough. If you aren’t trying hard enough, you aren’t living. Yeah, I said it. If you can’t laugh, you can’t live. Think about it. When do you feel the best? How do you show pleasure to other humans? Only when you are laughing and smiling. Reach inside of yourself. Find your internal comedian. It’s easy. Think of all the absurdity in you bland, normal daily life. The comedy is there. The spilling of coffee on your white shirt, the accelerating from one green light only to hit the next light red, the little sheet of toilet paper stuck to your shoe that you notice a half hour after your last trip to the bathroom, the standing in front of a group of people with your fly down, these are all hilarious. Enjoy them. Reveal in them. Turn all those embarrassing moments into little thoughts you can turn to when things seem to be bleak. If you practice laughing at these things, you will soon find yourself thinking about them and cracking yourself up. Soon you will begin to believe that you are the funniest person you have ever met. One thing about humor, it’s contagious. Feel free to spread it around. If you do, you will soon find groups of people flocking to listen to your every word. Your pithy conversations will humor even the most cantankerous curmudgeon. Okay, maybe not. But humor is the best medicine for any ill. This I believe. More stories from Paul Gavin. Info on novels Paul Gavin's Storefront. Technorati Tags: Fiction, Online Book, Chapter, Rebeleyeball, Paul Gavin IceRocket Tags: Fiction, Blook, Chapter, rebeleyeball