The philosophy that I have found works best for my life May 13, 2010

Death. Job stress. Emotional and interpersonal problems. Finding the funny in anything means that you’ve still got hope, that you’re still you… that with the right tools, the right friends, and the right environment, you can find your way out from underneath most anything.

If you can learn to laugh, even at yourself, you can learn to let go of just about anything that has made you crabbed and hunched over even in the shrine of your own soul. Because good funny – the kind that leaves you helpless with laughter and tears sliding down your cheeks, around your mouth that is actually cramping from smiling and cackling that much… it’s born of the best insight into the human condition.

And if you can laugh at it, you’ve already shined light on it. And after that, and in most cases, it will never be quite as scary as it was before, ever again.