I was thinking yesterday about how your perception of things is so closely tied to your current mood. Have you ever been to see a comedian perform? Of course you have, on TV if nowhere else. Those first few jokes are the most important. They have to be really funny. Once he gets you laughing, he can say just about anything and you keep laughing. You laughter runs on its own inertia. I have a group of friends I go out to lunch with about once a week. When we’re together we laugh just about the entire time. It’s because we all want to. If you could hear the ridiculous things we say that elicit laughter from each other I think you would fail to find them as funny as we do. It’s because we are laughing at the laughter itself.
The same thing happens with pissiness. When you’re feeling annoyed at someone or something, you let that run on its own inertia as well. You get annoyed at everyone and everything. Nothing is funny. I saw a hilarious comedian in Las Vegas a few years ago with a friend of mine that was really angry about something. (I honestly don’t remember about what) She had a horrible time. She found every joke to be childish, offensive, or just not funny. She couldn’t make the leap over to laughing side. It’s hard to do.
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