Fun and Laugther Make the Moment Bearable
Do you ever feel your parents present in your ways? The way I laugh is my mother’s, it’s loud and room-filling. Anyway, what is laughter and why does it happen? Laugh is a culmination, it has to be. The culmination of a moment, because after a laugh the moment feels new. A culmination in terms of an aspect of the moment itself, along some dimension. So what ‘culminates’ and what is the nature of this dimension?
A laugh is reaction where you manifest the moment is fun. When you laugh at a moment present or past, you attest to its present lightness, to it's bearability in memory in relation to the now. When you laugh at a past burdensome incident you affirm and declare that — despite it — you’re still here, kicking, breathing, jumping, laughing. It's you having fun at the expense of past troubles.
Fun and laughter are lightening, unburdening. As long as someone is laughing, the moment is still good, still bearable. The notion of "comic relief" starts making sense, it’s like a pressure valve. When nobody laughs a tension builds up and seeks release. A soft laugh indicates delight. A strong laugh euphoria. A shared laugh means well-being in consonance.
In recursion, you’d say the culminating aspect is the moment's ‘efficacy at provoking laughter’. Laughing is fun and fun is worthwhile, it's energy bursting out from a smile. An expressive smile, sustained and happening. Fun speaks of efficacy too, an efficacy at making the moment bearable and desirable, “fit” to be experienced.
“A day without laughter is a day wasted” — Chaplin
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