Friday, March 16, 2007
Pondering common wisdom
Did you know laughter can make you sick?
Sad, but true. And I thought laughter was supposed to be ‘the best medicine’.
Yesterday, I was playing with my little boy and his puppets. The puppets were dancing. I was singing. My son was laughing. We both carried on for several minutes, laughing in fits. Every now and then one of the puppets would pop-out and get his nose. That really made him happy. He laughed so hard he almost couldn’t stand up anymore. Then, he turned around and retched. He seemed to be as surprised as I was. Needless to say, the puppets got dropped and the baby got washed (and the floor, and the chair, and the… wait… this list is already gross enough).
I thought about it later… my mom used to warn me about this same thing when I was little, “If you laugh too much, you’ll start crying.” I never knew when she meant. It seemed contradictory. It seemed to make as much sense as some of the other things she told me, which is to say: none at all. Over the years, though, I’ve discovered many of those things my mother used to tell me were true – sometimes painfully true. I’ll have to add this laughter thing to the list.
It makes me wonder about other things my mother told me: are they true too? So far, the Wisdom of Mom has never been controverted, only confirmed. I suppose all those ‘mom-isms’ are collected from life and raising kids and growing old. These things are the common life experience of our world, I suppose they can’t help but be true.
One thing, though, I still haven’t succeeded in getting my face to “stick that way”. Although, mom never did give me a solid time frame on that one…
Sad, but true. And I thought laughter was supposed to be ‘the best medicine’.
Yesterday, I was playing with my little boy and his puppets. The puppets were dancing. I was singing. My son was laughing. We both carried on for several minutes, laughing in fits. Every now and then one of the puppets would pop-out and get his nose. That really made him happy. He laughed so hard he almost couldn’t stand up anymore. Then, he turned around and retched. He seemed to be as surprised as I was. Needless to say, the puppets got dropped and the baby got washed (and the floor, and the chair, and the… wait… this list is already gross enough).
I thought about it later… my mom used to warn me about this same thing when I was little, “If you laugh too much, you’ll start crying.” I never knew when she meant. It seemed contradictory. It seemed to make as much sense as some of the other things she told me, which is to say: none at all. Over the years, though, I’ve discovered many of those things my mother used to tell me were true – sometimes painfully true. I’ll have to add this laughter thing to the list.
It makes me wonder about other things my mother told me: are they true too? So far, the Wisdom of Mom has never been controverted, only confirmed. I suppose all those ‘mom-isms’ are collected from life and raising kids and growing old. These things are the common life experience of our world, I suppose they can’t help but be true.
One thing, though, I still haven’t succeeded in getting my face to “stick that way”. Although, mom never did give me a solid time frame on that one…
R.T. Lemur 9:48 AM
1 Comments:
Beleive me it can stick that way. I used to tape my nose up alot as a child, I was a differt cookie. And now as an adult I have a permaline across my nose where my nose curved up.
, at 7:23 AM