Because laughter is the best medicine and I do plenty of laughing in my day-to-day life. This whole weekend was like that for me. Sometimes I really enjoy being an introverted personality type because I can observe the things that are going on around me and can easily connect them to current activities, also some of the weirdest stuff happens to me.
I was talking to my friend, Joseph, the other night, and I have mentioned to him before that some of the most randomest/weirdest people find me and some of the oddest things happen to me. He has usually just nodded his head and smiled whenever I say that but last Friday night, he stopped, looked me dead in the eye and said
”You know what? You are so right. The randomest crap happens to you and your life always seems to have interesting people attracted to it. Most people, whenever they claim that they are random or weird things happen to them aren’t really serious or honest but I have hung out with you enough to KNOW that it is all true. And the thing is YOU don’t even look for it…it just seems to happen.”
For example, ten minutes later, we walked into the India Shoppe/Store just to check it out and see what it was. The guy at the counter, a left-over hippie from the 60s, stared at me and asked “Do you have a sister in California.” Now, my parents have never been past Texas, my mom was never knocked up, and, though contrary to EVERYONE who says I have a twin running around in Trussville, Alabama, I do not. So I merely smiled at the guy and said “Nope.” That same night, a lady had stopped me and asked me if I had been the Greek dancer the night before at the Greek Festival. ”Negative,” I replied. Then, I also have all my patrons. Just a second ago this guy was complaining about the bathrooms being locked (they always are), and this other guy wanted me to find him an obituary that HE HAD BEEN STARING AT FOR THE PAST TEN MINUTES!!! And then he wanted me to reorganize the messy newspaper that he had messed up…most people would get really mad at this kind of behavior (and I have to admit that I do) BUT most of the time I just have to laugh because it is SO ridiculous.
And anyway, since I choose to laugh and see the funny side to situations, I think that makes me a better person…a more positive person…maybe, a more joyful person. And that’s what is the best thing, to experience true joy and I know where that joy comes from: Jesus Christ. I might not be the best example for Jesus Christ but I do know that the joy that gives me the strenghth to literally “laugh” in the face of trials, tribulations and other tough things that have happened in my life I would be a very bitter person
P.S. My coworker just told me what the guy who wanted the obituary is really doing. What this guy does is he goes through all the obituaries and the African-American ones, he copies and then goes and crashes the funerals and gets lots of food because African-Americans serve LOTS of food at their funerals. So he doesn’t even know these people, reads their obits, goes to their funerals, acts like he knows them and eats the food. Wow.
