"Laughter is the best medicine" as the old saying goes and one can have a whole bunch of laugh whenever we hear an odd or funny story or situation or anything we consider as good humor. The Wikipedia defines humor as the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. It adds that the term itself derives from the “humoral medicine” of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors.
Many people would ever want to be funny so that they could get along with the group and not to be branded as flimsy or lousy. However, is having a sense of humor innate to a person or we can learn how to acquire it? Least, Are there really people who are so boring and would take everything seriously and would piss off whenever they hear something unusual? Raymond Smullyan, author of "The Planet Without Laughter", consider humor to be a "gift from God"; and theories which consider humor to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.
Well enough for the explanation but how useful humor is and how can it spice up our life? Humor can be a good “weapon” In parties when everyone feels awkward or feeling of being out of place because he or she doesn’t know a lot of people at the parties. Starting with casual talk, establishing rapport and bunting humor would spice up once presence at the parties but not necessarily becoming a ham on the parties. Keeping a low profile or just hanging around to wanting to have many acquaintances, having a sense of humor can be a great advantage.
For a man wanting to have his own woman, Humor can be a good approach. Most women don’t necessarily prefer tall dark and handsome people to have their partner neither a super rich person to be their perfect partner in life. They’d rather have the character of a person and someone that could make them “happy”. We’ll I guess making them life from time to time would create a good impression on your part. Lastly, humor can ease ones job. In this time of stressful world and cut throat competition, it can appease the situation and ease the burden of stress on everyone.
Are there times that it can be inappropriate? Yes, if it the situation doesn’t call for it. Some of the instances are Burials, sad moments, a time when one is supposed to console and not to make fun of someone. It is also rude to make fun of other culture or most terribly one should clearly know the difference between a fun and an offensive joke. And how can we clearly define it? We’ll as much as possible avoid dirty jokes or jokes that assail one’s sexuality especially in public.
The most important consideration in telling someone any humor is saying it in the right place and at the right time without losing one respect to others or degrading one’s dignity. We only have a short time to live so why not spend it in a light and joyous way?
