01.29.09
Strength, Endurance, & Flexibility–and Cleanliness
Three of the keystones of health are flexibility, strength, and endurance. If any of these is over-done, it weakens the others, and we are out of balance. We are unhealthy.
Too much flexibility makes our joints unstable. We need to have muscle strength to hold ourselves together. But strength without flexibility limits our mobility. And we need endurance in order to continue living, breathing, moving.
It’s the same with clean comedy. Too much flexibility means we say everything that comes to our minds–whether it’s offensive, vulgar, or off-color. We need some self-control: the strength of our appropriateness-muscles lets us know our boundaries in certain situations.
But too much strength and control means we limit our creativity to only those things that are politically correct–and hence, not so funny.
Finally, we need endurance to continue to use our sense of humor–in a balanced way–in situations throughout our day. When we can combine these three aspects into our comedy, we will always be healthy. And funny–very, very funny!
“Get Your SHINE Together!” and get balanced!
