why.so.serious

laughing is supposedly good for us.
it brings the happiness, or excitement within us, to more climactic display, where others can see, and hopefully join u in the act.
some view it as a form of pressure reliever, while others think that laughing is the link for two persons of different worlds to bond together without the help of language.
its good and all, especially when ure indulging in a series of laughters.
for those particular minutes or seconds, life seems to be good, and everything is well.

but what happens after the laughs.
certainly u do not expect the laughs to go on and on.

mr bean. we laugh at his stupidity, and his apparent idiocy in situations.
but what are we really laughing at?

we laugh because deep inside our consciousness, through mr bean, there is someone out there who is a worse fool than ourselves. we revel in that perception, and thus, the laughter is a self-confirmation of that very notion.

absurd jokes. intellectual jokes. sex jokes. racial jokes. stereotypical jokes.
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.if you want to, the next time after you had a hearty laugh, try to conceptualise the specific feeling which came after that laughter.

after a while, things do not seem to be so funny after all.