Your sense of humor is part of your soul.
If you stop using it long enough, life slowly hardens around your smile.
Every human being is born with the ability to laugh.
Guaranteed.
But like anything else in life, if you stop using it long enough, it weakens.
Humor goes stale.
Smiles become rare.
Grins disappear.
And eventually it takes a mule kick from life just to crack your face open long enough to laugh again.
That is not healthy for the soul.
DON’T FREEZE YOUR FACE
Some people walk around carrying permanent seriousness like Mount Rushmore carved into their expression.
Everything is heavy.
Everything is analytical.
Everything is urgent.
Everything is tense.
Somewhere along the way, they forgot how to play.
Not physically.
Spiritually.
CAN YOU COME OUT TO PLAY?
Too many adults abandoned their inner child.
We became so consumed with responsibility, pressure, schedules, bills, disappointments, and survival that joy slowly got pushed into storage.
And now coming out to play feels awkward.
But here is the truth:
Play was never supposed to require effort.
That is why it is called play.
MAKE THE EFFORT
Even if you do not feel especially funny right now…
try anyway.
Smile on purpose.
Laugh a little.
Lighten up intentionally.
You must care enough about your own happiness to participate in it.
Somewhere along the road something convinced many people that seriousness equals maturity.
It does not.
Balanced people know how to carry responsibility without burying joy alive.
LOL…
Who turned your kid switch off?
When did laughing out loud become “unproductive”?
Who told you smiling too much was weakness?
Whatever replaced your joy overstayed its welcome.
Life is already difficult enough.
Why help sadness do overtime?
I DO THIS ALL THE TIME
One of the healthiest things a person can learn is how to laugh at themselves.
Not cruelly.
Not shamefully.
Lovingly.
Human beings are funny creatures.
We stumble.
Forget things.
Overreact.
Trip over life.
Say ridiculous things.
Take ourselves too seriously.
And once you can smile at yourself, it becomes easier to smile with others too.
WE MADE YOU LAUGH!
Think about babies.
Nobody teaches babies how to laugh.
They come into this world already carrying joy naturally.
In fact, babies teach adults how to laugh again.
Their giggles.
Their wonder.
Their innocence.
Their pure reactions.
Somewhere deep inside us, that child still exists.
Waiting.
SAY CHEESE
Yes, painful things happen in life.
We are not fools pretending suffering does not exist.
But why allow hardship to permanently steal an entire part of your personality?
If life is going to freeze moments into memory, would you rather remember constant tension…
Or moments where your soul still knew how to smile?
SIMPLE EXERCISE
Try something simple.
Smile while alone.
Seriously.
It feels awkward at first.
And then funny.
And then strangely healing.
Your face remembers.
Your nervous system responds.
Your spirit softens.
Sometimes the body has to help remind the soul how to loosen up again.
HA-HA
Once you start looking for humor, you begin finding it everywhere.
Little moments.
Funny timing.
Human quirks.
Unexpected reactions.
Random absurdities.
And suddenly life feels lighter again.
You may even find yourself laughing simply because somebody else is laughing nearby.
That is a blessing.
GET SERIOUS ABOUT LAUGHING
If happiness could be permanently painted onto a face, it would look unnatural.
Real joy breathes.
Comes and goes.
Moves naturally.
But one thing remains true:
You must use your sense of humor or it slowly fades.
Stop over-analyzing every single thing.
Stop carrying the whole world on your shoulders every minute of the day.
Stop starving your inner child.
Laugh.
Smile.
Play.
Because when laughter disappears completely, life becomes painfully heavy…
And that is a real tragedy.
— Richie
Pearls for the Soul
when you feed the soul, you feed everything.
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