Quick Bytes: Laughter Seems To Have Disappeared From Society

Much sought after World Laughter Day passed off unceremoniously. Is it not truly so? I could be utterly wrong. After all, the efforts none formulates strength to cause another to rumble with the peel of laughter.

The very eruption of “hahaha” cannot happen unless the mind is free and the heart is not throbbing with anxiety. Laughter is a feeling that lasts for a short while, but a loud laugh produces much joy. World Laughter Day used to be an annual event in order to spread the science of laughter all around. But the tragedy is that our laughter has been lost somewhere in this deadly coronavirus pandemic.

It is a moot question: how can we laugh at strict pursuance of social distancing? So long as we remain far from the herd of humans, there can be no laughter at all. The globe has moved away from this years old event of much importance without much fanfare. People have been forced to live in the stringent lockdown conditions with a view to slow down the spread of the virus. In such an adverse scenario, the value of the laughter has somewhere ceased to be. That’s why our faces are looking long and anxiety has also gripped us. The laugh does not emanate in a precarious situation despite the utter reality of different qualities embedded into the laughs.

“Life is worth living as long as there is a laugh in it,” said Lucy Maude Montgomery. Dau Voire also stated: “Laughing is, and will always be, the best form of therapy.”