You need to laugh when...

In more than one instance, I have been caught expressing mirth at the wrong time and in the wrong place. And it is everytime that this happens, my behaviour is questioned and tagged errant. Then it is not wrongly opposed when I crack up when my friend calls up to tell me that her dog has died. But why do I laugh then? Strangely, I have no answer to that question.

Why do people laugh? What makes them act in a particular manner when they hear, see or feel something "funny"? I am no expert on the subject, but I can tell you that this is one emotion that cannot be contained. No matter how much you need to control your laughter you cannot, and will eventually give into that belly bouncing exersise as soon as it wells up within you.

But coming to why I laughed when my friend told me about her dog. Honestly, I don't know. I can surmise why, but I cannot be too sure. I think I laughed because the sadness of losing a pet did not reach me. Mind you, I cried alot when my own pet died. I howled as if there was nothing more dear to me and that dear thing had left me forever. What I am trying to say is that the incident did not affect directly. Ofcourse I felt sorry for my friend, but that was it. She was behaving the same way I, probably, had when my pet died and now I found it funny.

How ironical!

But this is only one of those times when I have offended others sentiments by my ill timed laughter. Let me not make you feel like I laugh at others miseries and weep at mine own. The twist in the story is that I happen to laugh at my own sorry self more than I laugh at anyone else!

Maybe I laugh at other people without guilt because I can laugh at myself and do not mind if others laugh at me.