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.
A Multitude of Musings 