We use laughter in such variety that it touches all parts of our lives. Today we’ll look at five types of laughter that we use to stitch together our collective experience. Laughter is an inseparable part of the human experience. Especially when you’re talking to yourself because, for most people, they’re the funniest person they know. I know what that’s…
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BECOMING THE MONSTER WE HUNT
Things always get worse before they get better, and when they do get better, they get worse. It’s a paradoxical situation that happens when big improvements are made – the door is opened to growth and along with it comes a brand new set of problems. When a person learns to ride a bicycle they add to their life a…
CHOOSING OUR PAIN MINDFULLY
We all choose our own pain. Whether you’ve stepped on a Lego or you’re projectile vomiting out of the back window of your Uber, it was your choices have led you down this path. I’m sure you have an idea of how one’s choices could turn them into a puke sprinkler in the wee hours of the night, but how…
COMMERCIALS – THE USE AND ABUSE OF INFLUENCE
Commercials – there are few things so annoying as having your attention interrupted to be told how unhappy you are and how happy you could be if you just spent a little bit of money. Advertising is something that has been woven into our culture, but it’s not unique to human beings – it happens in the animal kingdom as…
THERE IS A LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Time is the mechanism through which life finds meaning. Everybody and everything has a limited slice of the temporal plane. With time being relative, our own slice of it tends to be very much shorter than we might like. Paradoxically enough, it is our inevitable death that gives us reason to live in the first place. A common fantasy of…
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF DRINKING YOURSELF UNDER THE TABLE
The evening has already rolled past what would have been a reasonable bedtime and here I am once again, half empty beer can in hand, disappointed in the fact that I told myself that I would only have a few beers and then stop… but I lied! Did I know that I was lying to myself? I mean, I wasn’t…
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF BAD RELATIONSHIPS
Let’s start this off with a clarification – this post is about the bright side of the takeaways – the hindsight from having been through a bad relationship. If you are currently in a union that is truly inharmonious then the brightest side of it is that you can leave. “No I can’t.” I didn’t say you can just get…
ONE SMALL STEP INTO A LIFETIME FREE OF CLUTTER
My entire life I have had a superpower – to emit a field of clutter that would populate any open space with piles of papers, boxes, clothes, and any other clutterable item worth forgetting about. It’s amazing how clutter piles can sit there so long that they collect a proper layer of dust and pet hair. Which I then clean…
WHEN ADVICE ISN’T ADVICE – LEARNING TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
How many of you have been in this situation – you’re sharing a conversation with someone and the topic rolls over a problem that’s troubling them… “I just can’t seem to get enough sleep! No matter what I do, I’m always tired and have trouble getting out of bed in the morning! If I could just figure out what’s wrong…
“THERE’S NO WAY THAT’S TRUE” – THE DENIAL OF IMAGINATION
Just the other day I was browsing on Reddit and came across a post that caught my interest – a headline that was resigned as ridiculous for stating that “cancer is a choice”. For those that don’t know, Reddit is a website that is a collection of user-submitted material and links and can be quite informative, entertaining, and even horrific…