The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed. --Chamfort
When we are adrift in our addiction, we take ourselves very seriously and often lose contact with reality. We become lost in fantasy and obsession. Life becomes joyless because we can't see beyond our addiction, and we find no real satisfaction there. We lose touch with the joy and humor of life, and we find that everything around us and inside us is grim and dark.
One of the many positive signs of our return to health and sanity is our recovery of the gift of laughter. Each day as we gain more energy and zest of life, we move in to the world and find many things that are humorous, in ourselves and in other people. We laugh and find we are no longer alone.
Laughter is the mark of a healthy, happy human being. Laughter shows that we are truly a part of the human community. It is a sign that we are alive and on the way to recovery.
I am glad that I can laugh again and feel in touch with myself and others.
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Love this pappy! I've been taking myself far too seriously the past couple of days and it's really not worth the inner turmoil.. It's much better to find the humor in things, though this can be difficult at times. Haha I was at a meeting today where a man was sharing about taking his long term girlfriend out to dinner and he says " now when I was drinking, i wouldn't have wasted my money on food" the whole room broke out into laughter because we all get the absurdity of that statement. I find that I'm laughing more at meetings as opposed to being all tense and overly serious. One of the joys of being sober is to find humor in the insanity we all used to live in
Haha I was at a meeting today where a man was sharing about taking his long term girlfriend out to dinner and he says " now when I was drinking, i wouldn't have wasted my money on food" the whole room broke out into laughter because we all get the absurdity of that statement. I find that I'm laughing more at meetings as opposed to being all tense and overly serious. One of the joys of being sober is to find humor in the insanity we all used to live in
Hi Colleen, ... ... ... this is called the 'Healing process' ... when we can laugh at ourselves we're finally getting well ... it's a healthy process
and it has, for ages, been known that those whose laugh, heal quicker ... and to me? ... it's a God thing ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
