HOW OVERLY-SERIOUS PEOPLE GET THROUGH LIFE is a mystery to me. Yet certain people – we’ve all encountered them – seem to lack the most important sense a human being can possess: a sense of humor. Life is just too filled with absurdities to take it without laughing. “If we couldn’t laugh,” sang Jimmy Buffett, “we would all go insane.” I know I would. All around us we see cacophony, nonsense, propaganda, lies, ignorance, incompetence, corruption, hypocrisy, selfishness, cruelty, needless death and suffering. There’s no way to reasonably make sense of it because it is the essence of absurdity. We can’t simply accept it because it is clearly unacceptable. There’s no way to fight it because it will overwhelm you in the end. What we must do is remain clear-eyed because, as Camus mused, “the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.” So stay focused on the lessons that you’ve learned, the hard-won knowledge you’ve gained through it all, and the humorous if tragic reality that has whacked you upside the head more times than you can count. It’s crazy, and it’s absurd, and as Jimmy sang, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
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