Friday, January 23, 2009

Laughter(to be graded)

Hello to any viewing this blog. I am now going to write about an experience that happened recently, under the topic "something unusual that happened that day."

Now, I shall relate the unusual thing that happened that day without detail. It was a rather dull Friday morning, and a schoolmate told me a joke. I laughed heartily before continuing the conversation. End of experience. What was so unusual about that? Let me describe the case in detail. In case you didn't already know, the unusual occurrence was me laughing, laughing heartily. Again, what's so unusual? The thing about me and real laughter is that we rarely stray on each other's path, and it almost never happened in school.

No, I do laugh in school, just that it's not real laughter. Is there a difference, you may ask. Yes, of course there is. Fake laughter is the kind of laughter that happens if your friend tells you a bad joke or one that's kinda dumb, but you smile and pretend to laugh to be polite. Fake laughter's the kind of laughter which you do when everyone around you is laughing at something you don't really get, or feel is funny, but just join in for the sake of it. Of course, I have smiled, grinned or even chuckled in school, but to laugh heartily? That was just a plain breach of my personal etiquette. That was what made the day unusual, unique even special.

To make things, worse, I broke my personal etiquette for a rather lame joke I had already heard before. I'm not sure if the viewers of my blog have heard it, but here is the content of the joke," A student asked a teacher a question during a test, asking the day's date. The teacher replied that the day's date was not very important, and asked him to continue the paper. The student replied that he wanted to get one thing right on the entire paper." I didn't really understand the joke, it was kinda lame and it wasn't very funny, but I still laughed heartily. I felt and thought only three things then. Firstly, laughing feels good. Secondly, the joke's kinda lame. Thirdly, stop laughing.

In conclusion, I realised that laughing seemed to be good for you, and made a mental note to find more funny things to laugh at. I also made a mental note to change my personal etiquette to allow laughing.

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