My Cat Says #19: Laughter is the Best Medicine

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Laughter is the Best Medicine

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Let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures every day. To me, a day without laughter is a day wasted. It gives me great pleasure to be able to make someone smile or better, laugh out loud. There is no picture so beautiful as to see someone smiling, bright-eyed, with a twinkle in the eye, happy or laughing. Even my furkids -- dogs, cats and rabbit can express their smiles and laughter too.

Laughing has many benefits from relieving stress to a feeling of happiness -- similar to taking a load off one's shoulders or feeling a lightness in the heart.

One might think anger and laughter are mutually exclusive; that it is impossible for one to be angry and laugh at the same time. But it happened to me...

Many years ago in my younger days, my friend and I had a bad argument. Can't recall what it was about but it was really funny...

My friend and I are Malaysians of Chinese descendants. She expresses her thoughts best in Cantonese (a Chinese dialect) and knows a splatter of English. I, on the other hand, articulate my thoughts best in English and best to keep my mouth shut as it makes people laugh their head off when I try to speak the few words I know in Cantonese or Mandarin. But hey, I made people laugh! (And God said, "That is good!)

Back to the argument... From trying to explain with the little English she knows (that I understood), she went rattling on in Cantonese louder and louder -- in frustration -- because of my obvious blank face and trying to hold back my smile without meaning any offence.

Looking in as a third person, it was humorous to the hilt! Because I could not understand what she was trying to tell me in Cantonese at all, I eventually broke up laughing out loud. She naturally took offence and stormed out.

Lesson learned:

1. Anger and laughter are NOT mutually exclusive
2. If intend to get into a relationship, compulsory to have a common language both understand well.

Whatever, laughter is still the best medicine.

Laugh on! :D

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