On Humour
It comes from dark places man
Oh well this was something that I had got while navigating through some of the most dystopian hellscape experiences and phases of my life and this thing had gotten me through a lot of things like:
- unpaid gigs
- unknowingly asking a female English teacher what the word “phallic” meant
- a self-administered haircut beyond professional repair
- holiday seasons like thanksgiving, christmas and new years
- high school chemistry
- adolescence a.k.a the time when there were regular household conflicts and one of the family members underwent depression where as a kid I would regularly crack jokes to make someone smile and lighten up the tension and the mood in the room
- a petting zoo where I was once chased by goats until I gave them my sandwich
- the fathead phase in HS when I gained 30 pounds
- getting braces
- the realization that most of my childhood dreams will remain unfulfilled
- the time I promised to feed my friend’s cat
- the time I left the back door open and lost the cat and subsequently the friend too
- being thrown into the big business conversations being 15, tiny and nervous as a result of "starting early"
- 2020 when the realization hit that everything in the world is horrible right now and that even the cheesy, gooey comfort of oven-baked pasta cannot bring me happiness
And countless things like this where after years of failing to see the bright side and finally realizing it was impossible to make out alive if I continued to approach life so damn seriously and thus deciding to reframe this "deeply anxious over-intellectual-worrier" and approach life as a "charming and lovable immature bubbling hooligan".
It's a life philosophy you see.
"When I Choose To See The Good Side Of Things, I'm Not Being Naive. It Is Strategic and Necessary. It's How I Learned To Survive Through Everything."
- Quote from Waymond in Everything Everywhere All at Once (prolly the best movie that I saw this year)
Now with that said, I am aware that most people don’t appreciate this sense of humour, but then again most people don’t appreciate the finest beluga caviar, just because it’s contaminated with 17 times the acceptable level of mercury.
Fin