Fifteen Minutes of Laughter

Istiqlál (Independence), 1 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 170 BE - Friday, May 17, 2013 about 3:07 PM Pacific Time

I am in a blog competition at writing.com and the prompt for Friday always has something to do with humor. This morning the question was "Have you laughed today?" Since I planned to go to the grocery store, I thought I would get that entry written and posted early, but I had not laughed. As I was looking for something to make me laugh, I came across a YouTube video about a study concerning laughter and the heart.

According to the doctor on the video fifteen minutes of laughter a day is good for a person's heart. Apparently, laughter has something to do with opening up the blood vessels or something like that. I thought that was interesting, I also discovered something else while I was researching the entry. I found out that, at least with me, laughter is contagious.

I realized that laughter was contagious while I was watching a video (on YouTube) of someone laughing. I could not stop laughing while the person on the video was laughing. Since I find laughing contagious, I should not have any difficulty laughing for fifteen minutes a day as long a I watch a video of someone laughing; it is worth a try anyway.

Funny Friday in Las Vegas

Istiqlál (Independence), 5 Jalál (Glory), 169 BE – Friday, April 13, 2012 about 1:30 PM Pacific Time

Friday at last or should I say, “Thank God It’s Friday”. I know most people do not think Friday is funny especially Friday the Thirteenth. However, after considering all the horrid events that could happen today and the fact that there are two words designating “Fear of Friday the Thirteenth” (friggatriskaidekaphobia and paraskevidekatriaphobia); I have decided that the best way to overcome fear is to laugh.

Therefore, for me, today is funny Friday and I am going to see if I can find something amusing about the day. If I cannot find anything else to laugh at, I can laugh at myself. Sometimes I can be a very amusing person. True, I do manage to mess up most jokes I know when it comes to retelling them, which is why I normally do not retell a joke. I am not going to retell any jokes here either, at least not this Friday.

How am I an amusing person? I find the fact that I washed three sheets this morning and have them lying over chairs to dry quite amusing. That may not seem funny to some, but if you stop and think about it, it is amusing. There are a great many things in life that range from laugh out loud funny to amusing, we simply have to stop and think.

Personally, I do not think most people laugh enough. I know I do not laugh enough. If laughter is the best medicine then we should laugh at least once a day for five or six minutes, at least; so stop, look around, find something funny, and then laugh. Do not worry about what other think because laughter is contagious and if you laugh long enough other people will join you.

The last thing that made me laugh

I have laughed more today then I have laughed in a long time. The last thing that made me laugh was a poem entitled GETTIN' OLD IS NOT FOR SISSIES! I joined the Senior Center on writing.com and the present contests is poems with that title. I wrote a poem using that title and then I reviewed three or four, I enjoyed the reviewing the poems and laughing. It's nice to laugh again.