Time wounds all heels. -Jane Ace-
Humor is so healing... and it's fun too. We find that humor one of the first human gifts to disappear when addictive diseases set in.
We lose the ability to laugh at ourselves and with others. We feel insulted if someone pokes fun at us, and we personalize everything, seeing it as a put down. The more our disease progresses, we make Scrooge look like a stand-up comic. Indeed, instead of being healers we have become heels...heels without souls.
Good humor is very inexpensive. It is one of the pleasures in life that is relatively free. I'm sure. if we try hard enough, we can remember a part of us that used to laugh and be playful.
Humor doesn't die, thank goodness, it just goes underground sometimes and digs caverns for our "serious" selves to cave in to. (Anne Wilson Schaef)
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