For someone who seems somewhat sad lately, I've had a lot of
this. Laughter is probably the best medicine (next to sex), and it honestly
does so much in terms of bringing people together. Laughter is how I handle awkward situations,
stop crying, break the ice with new people, and feel better again.
I can't write about this without thinking about the last
time I lost myself in hysterical
laughter...
I was at my good
friends house, and she had her little cousins over. They wanted to watch a
movie, so we settled on watching Disney Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur"
(so underrated-- it's a beautiful, touching film, but had all its release
thunder taken away by "Inside Out", albeit another gorgeous and touching
film). Anyways. (I'll try not to spoil things) Between laughing at how the
dinosaurs had become domesticated and how the human running around was wild, we
stumbled across a scene that basically included a drug trip on acid or LSD. The
baby dinosaur and the human both are some strange berries, and before you know
it, space and time was bending onscreen, and the shapes of the dinosaur and
human were being stretched to extremes. I don't know why my friends and I
completely lost it at that part-- perhaps it was because Disney so blatantly
made a drug reference in an obvious kids movie, or that the little kids that
were watching it with us did not really know what was happening.
Either way, my lungs and stomach hurt afterwards, and
thinking about it even now brings all the smirks to my face. There's just such
a relieving release from laughter-- and I wish people could take advantage of
it every day...