10.31.08
There’s Nothing Funny About That!
I recently did my, ‘Beat Me Up At The Ballgame’ bit. At an event for a women’s shelter. Only AS I was singing that song did I realize: “Hey, perhaps I shouldn’t be doing this here at this show…” But it was too late. But: it was exactly right: The more severe, the more painful and sharp, the more extreme the event, the more was need a sense of humor. We need to be able to (eventually) laugh about what tears us apart. We need to face it, and then–in laughing about it–be able to have control over it. We don’t have to be emotionally attached to the pain. Humor helps us to sever that attachment.
Laughing at those painful events doesn’t mean making fun of victims. It doesn’t mean suggesting that the events weren’t important or painful.
It doesn’t mean anything.
That’s because however YOU personally find a way to use your sense of humor is the right way. For you.
No one else needs to laugh with you. But you you must discover the humor for yourself, and create that buffer of peace.
