Don’t you just die a little on the inside every time you come across a bunch of people trying to amuse themselves from the lamest statement ever made since the creation of mankind?
It may be hard, but i could try to understand when people have to laugh as a sign of respect or admiration for someone, maybe for an older person, a loved one, for self-satisfaction, as an insult or for a person of some form of high authority with favour-granting capabilities as the case may be. Other than these, i cant seem to understand why some people burst into hearty laughs whenever a statement as lame as a banana peel is made.
It sickens me every time i mistakenly find myself in a small group of people, and just like the other day, some guy walks up to join the group and as he arrives he says, “if this cold doesn’t kill me, nothing else would” Okay i can understand that this is a little on the funny side, and it was a creative approach for a self- introduction, but common now, i would say such a comment deserves a smile, a giggle at most, but i can remember how a couple of boys bursted out laughing, jouncing their shoulders uncontrollably in their laugh as their eyes searched the rest of the gang , looking for approval.
I know i could get sarcastic at times, but common now, why laugh when nothing at all is funny? Do you laugh just because you can? I know of places where a laugh that is uncalled-for can get you killed.It is easy to see why many popular people complain of not having trustworthy friends, because they are always surrounded by fakes who would laugh at a sneeze just to keep their jobs.
I have a very interesting neighbour, he is a good friend of mine, the type of good friend you pray for others to have too so you dont have to suffer alone. He is a little strange, one among the many strange friends i happen to have.The other day he walked into my room for the third time after i had politely told him i would pay him a visit as soon as i put things in order in my room. The truth was i just wanted to sleep a little; i was only being polite. Politeness is the father of all actings in the real world! Anyway, when the door opened for the third time and he walked into the room , pacing slowly as he always did, i told him
“Hey buddy i understand you are bored, but the simple truth is i want to sleep right now! and i cant do so with you bursting in every second!” A little cruel i must admit but what does a fellow have to do to get a little sleep? was there a form i had to fill and stamp before i could sleep? I had barely finished speaking when he bursted out laughing.
At first i thought it was just a laugh to lighten up the situation, but i was wrong. He laughed a little louder, and way longer than as for sanity. Then he walked over to me as i lay in my bed with my head jutting out, he patted me on the shoulder and said “Man you are very funny, you are the man, you are really the man” what man is he talking about? Then he sat down comfortably on the chair right in front of me, stretched his entire body and repeated, “mennn I’m so bored, shit! I don’t know what to do” He tactfully avoided my eyes all the time. I could see he was doing all he could to avoid reading the expression on my face which was a single question. “Is this guy for real?”
Many of us often get into situations in which we are tempted to laugh as a sign of courtesy to others, some of us build a hobby out of it, and others just deem it fit in order to go with that legendary flow of old, and not to stand out as being the odd one in the crowd. To all of these people i say “it is a free world and we each have our right to laugh; (the right to be fake as it should be written down in the constitution)- so carry-on”, but to those who make a job out of it, especially those who intentionally look for me, just to make me a spectator of this silly act,…I have got a plea for you: “Please! Please! don’t make me go to jail”.
Maybe laughing for no apparent reason is “in” right now…U know how they say life’s a bitch,so fuck it….