Humor, like cherished friends, is essential in times of crisis. How would we do without either? Times of crisis are enduring proof of how deeply humor reaches in the human spirit. A crisis is an extreme setting for humor. We are talking here about the direst tests of our human spirits—laughing when it hurts.
We wish to shun even the thought of a crisis we have endured—don’t expect us to dwell on imagining a future crisis. We don’t like to think that way even for a moment. In fact, there would be something sick about such a thought.
But here is a healthy thing to do: Think of having a crisis without humor in your life!
Although, even that is hard for us to imagine, perhaps that thought will cause us to celebrate the gift of humor, and the power of humor, and to seek more and more the release that comes through humor—and the fun of humor—even in a time of crisis! All of these positive contributions that humor makes causes us to want to become, more and more, a humorous person.
