Whilst I was in college studying Drama, anytime we were given something to improvise, most of the time everyone including myself, would do something funny. Make people laugh. This was the easy thing to do and a safe option. You could easily do something silly, say something funny, anything really and people would laugh. If anyone was given a task to make someone cry, it would be a lot more difficult to do. This isn't because the person isn't able to make other people cry-it's because people who are watching and listening are too afraid to be sad. How many times do you hear people say "Oh I don't like that song, it's too depressing" or, "I can't watch that film, it makes me cry." These are people that are afraid to connect with their emotions. Kurt Vonnegut once even said:-
"Laughter and tears are both responses to both frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterwards."
Now there is nothing wrong with this at all. Who wouldn't want to be constantly happy all the time?? However in the current way of the world, this is actually impossible to do unless you were on some kind of happy pills. But surely it is better to be however your feeling, regardless of what others might say?? Regardless to what you might have to "clean up".
If I went into work and spoke to one of my colleagues or if I spoke to one of the many acquaintances I have and said something along the lines of "I'm feeling really down today, I feel so sad, I don't think I can take much more of life", people would believe it or not-laugh. Their response would be something like "Oh Muk, ha ha, he is always depressed ha ha". They would be too afraid to want to actually even want to talk to me seriously and cast aside what I would truly be feeling and pass it off as a joke. People that actually really know me, which is unfortunately not many anymore, would probably want to sit down and talk to me. The majority of the people who read this blog seem to focus on the few funny bits rather than the serious ones.
I am not saying that everyone should be sad. I'm not saying everyone should go around and be downbeat and have negative feelings all the time. I'm trying to say that everyone should just feel how they are feeling and not act out an emotion. If you're happy, be happy. If you're sad, be sad. If you're angry, then be angry. But don't kid yourself to be feeling something you're not as this can just send your soul into oblivion.
Pablo Neruda once said "Laughter is the language of the soul". That could be true, but only if you really feel like laughing. Otherwise it is better to cry then to pretend.
It's not about being "afraid" to cry. I don't think anyone would be "afraid" to cry. I think it is more of a matter of being embarrassed to show emotion in public. Personally, I'm not "afraid" to cry in public or show any form of emotion in public, but I do however, find it embarrassing to a large extent which is why most of the time I try to avoid it as much as possible and try my best to be happy to not only help myself, but to make the people around me happy and to ensure my negative mood doesn't affect anybody else and I'm sure that ALOT of people feel the exact same way.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for people passing others emotional states off as a joke, I don't believe that people truly consider it as a joke. Some people, like myself just find it harder to connect to people or understand the way in which other people are feeling. Trying to connect with another person over their emotions is an extremely hard task to do as no one person has the same emotional understanding. Not one person can sit down and give complete advice and help to someone who is feeling down because, in reality, the other person trying to help more then likely has no idea how the other person is truly feeling and sometimes it is overwhelming to sit down and give your help to someone when you don't understand what is going through their thoughts and mind. You can always give advice, but most of the time, people don't take it. No one can help anyone unless they are willing to help them self.
As awful as this sounds, it is just a lot easier to be able to sit down with someone who is cheerful and jolly then to sit down with someone who is down about everything. It's just the way it works.
Sincerely, Diana.
Who wouldn't want to be constantly happy all the time?? However in the current way of the world, this is actually impossible to do unless you were on some kind of happy pills. That of course is arguable, we both have an equal amount of beer in our glasses. Yours is half empty and mine is half full. Life has negatives and positives I refuse to dwell on the negatives. At my age I have not got the time. Lyric from a song I love. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
ReplyDeleteMukesh you seriosuly are one morbid person, once again i agree with Diana you should take in what she says a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteMeegz
time to experience soul ecstacy...
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