The most successful people I know have a good sense of humor. I’ve been studying and writing about the philosophy of humor and gone so far as to change my name to Laughing — as a literal, philosophical joke experiment — just to get a laugh.
I’m still waiting. In the meantime, I’m making myself laugh. Not at other people, not my style. But at ideas and being confident enough to play publicly, which is entirely what this blog has been since 2011. I wanted to make myself publicly accountable for the jokes I was telling, to build a repository, and to really explore why people laugh, its benefits, its pitfalls, its use, and its deeper meaning into what we call human nature.
For me, that’s a thing of fascination. Not so much the humor, tho I love a good laugh. But exploring human nature. I often tell my friends to just go for it. Build an old school blog and share whatever comes to mind. I did it. Under the guise of humor. It’s easy. What it does is teach you about yourself in a way that you — and now ai — can index. It’s fascinating to observe society’s evolution and with it our own.
Sometimes HTTF is funny-haha, sometimes it’s funny-she was tying too fast and lost me, and other times it’s funny-interesting 🤔 in a let me think about that more. Hence the tag line at the top of this blog. Things that make us think. 💭
Mostly for anyone who is reading, take a chance. Be silly. Allow yourself to serve as a friendly and respectful laugh to the people who need it most.
Your philosophies will need to be updated as a result of seeing how easy life can feel, even when everyone else’s narrative would sound dreadful. Good to consider.
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