Hello all,
After laughing to the point of tears at several 'silly' threads that have posted here in the past 24 or so hours, I just wanted to take this opportunity to make a few remarks about humor, and the absolute, undeniable need for it. Especially now.
We are a country in mourning, it is true. Nothing can change that fact. But even before that 'we' were collectively mourning the actions of some really misguided people, we {meaning JW's and exJW's} were mourning already.
Mourning years lost, lives lost, children abused, family and friends lost and sense of self sacrificed on the alter of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society INC.
But what never ceases to amaze me is how many of us were able to retain, or at least recover our senses of humor. I know that personally I would not be alive right now without mine. It has gotten me through the darkness of times that I couldn't begin to fathom when events were unfolding around me.
My husband Justin made me laugh the first time I ever spoke to him. I made him laugh too. In that moment we connected, and his ability to make me laugh to the point of needing my asthma inhaler is the thing that has kept us glued together through the past year, which included my MS diagnosis and loss of my independance, my father and his mother nearly dying 12 days apart and their subsequent months-long recoveries: and six months of lay offs and job hunting. All at the same time.
It's true that sometimes you just don't want to laugh. Crying is good too, and something that you have to do.
But the bottom line is, if you stay that low, continually, then your life will come to a grinding halt. You will give up fighting, and will drown in your own sadness.
Don't let that happen! Allow yourself to seek out people who can make you laugh. I've been surprised by the quickness of the wit of many of the fine posters here. People who can make you cry your eyes out at their stories of their Borg experiences can also show you a side that is full of life, despite what they tried to do to us all.
I don't want to seem to trivialize any of the serious threads that are posted here. We all know how important the issues are: child abuse, battered women. Those subjects are getting the attention that they desperately need. I wanted to post this in case anyone lurking was offended by the fact that some of us spent so much time in the past day jesting about the physical attributes of a fictional character.
But those of you who have followed our posts for any length of time know that many of us have given hours, months, years to the fight for the real causes here and I hope that you know that by making our jokes, we are in no way detracting from the importance of anything that goes on on this or other boards.
It's just so important to keep ourselves from getting too weary. And I've had a lot of help to rebuilding my tired spirit this week from some very funny, good people. I'm grateful to them all.
Just my contribution for the day :) Have a great weekend all.
(hugs)
essie