Its a choice point. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice. What happens to one is not always in control but what to make out of it is. Thus, having humour as one of the perspectives to look at life is a choice. It's not about ridiculousness, it's about lightness. When we start to see the "I" from a distance, it gives us access to choose the perspective of being humorous.
I would like to complete this set on Humour with the Poem "Laugh and Be Merry" by John Masefield.
Laugh and Be Merry
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of
His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord.
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,
Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,
Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends.
Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.
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