One of the qualities I most admire in a person is a sense of humour. I mean humour, not sarcasm. It's one of the important and totally unique human trait, in that although we share many characteristics and capabilities with many animals, like we can all feel happiness, sadness, joy and gloom, pleasure or boredom, hunger and thirst, etc. the sense of humour is exclusively human.
We need it. More than simply believing we do. To console ourselves when life has not been exactly treating us fairly, to
put things in prospective, to mitigate disappointments, giving us
strength to accept the inexplicable irony of life, and thus renew fresh
hopes. And the best humour of all, also the most helpful and even
therapeutic is when one can laugh at oneself, and able to see the funny
side of things even when facing adversities. Recognizing shortcomings is
half way down the road to correct and improve it.
I do not usually pay much attention to politics but, I do always look at political cartoons. They
always evoke my deepest admiration how the amazing ability of these
very clever artists in condensing the complex reality and situations
into some caricatures, with just a gesture or two that tells more than a
full page article, or a detailed chronicle news report.
A person without any sense of humour is pitiable, and a society without humour would be quite suffocating.
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