Laughter is the best medicine for depression. It is not only a human being who has sense of humour but even our Darwinian ancestors have it, as shown by many scientific experiments. Laughter reduces pain & worries become lighter.
Students can remember scientific facts & enjoy grammar if it is put in a more humorous way. Doctors make patients laugh to make them feel that their problems are not so much serious.
But the facts reported in Times Of India under the column “The Speaking Tree” by Anurag has to be taken seriously. It is the case of Norman Consins, editor of the Saturday Review, who was given up by the doctors when he had an acute problem of degeneration of tissues. Once he was told that he did not have much time to live, he left the hospital to live in a hotel & enjoyed life by regularly watching cartoons such as those by Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin & episodes from Candid Camera. He slowly recovered & returned to work. When he had a heart attack after 15 years, again he just laughed himself back to health.
When children do not laugh, parents should search for the problem & seek a remedy first. A person who has the ability to laugh takes the joy of life seriously & the person who cannot laugh takes the burden of life seriously.
Laughter is a gift of love from God. It is a medicine without side effects, a champagne without intoxication, an accident without injury, a disease without fear.
It is an expression of the will to live.