Share Your World (January 12, 2026)

Hi everyone. I’m joining Share Your World again. Loved this week’s questions. Here goes.

1. How would you describe your laughter? (giggly, deep, infectious? etc)
I think when I truly laugh out loud, my laughter is pretty deep especially for someone assigned female at birth. I don’t really like it, but I prefer it to my non-laughing voice. My voice is quite low for a woman’s, which I don’t mind, but it has some weird screechy feel to it. Eek!

2. What makes you smile?
Lots of things can make me smile, but I am told I especially have a wide smile on my face when recounting fun activities I’ve engaged in recently.

3. Have you ever cried with laughter, and if so, can you remember the circumstances?
Not that I remember.

4. Have you ever laughed at an inopportune moment?
Absolutely. I am an extremely detail-oriented thinker and this means I sometimes laugh at a detail that’s funny even though the bigger picture is rather sad. An example I’ve mentioned quite a few times is the moment a fellow patient in the psych hospital told us that he had been diagnosed with incurable cancer. He for whatever reason needed to name a staff member, but couldn’t remember her name so instead said “fat troll”, referring back to a moment he’d insulted this staff himself. I immediately burst out laughing.

Gratitude

For today’s optional gratitude section, I decided to look into BrainyQuote, an app and website with quotes on it, for a quotation on humor or laughter. I found numerous. Here’s but one of them.

Indeed, this quote shows that the line between satire and reality is often blurry. I in this light remember a story on a satirical Dutch “news” site about riots because an aggressive wolf had been shot. Two weeks later, it actually happened.