Monday, May 23, 2011

SUCCESS AND SANITY

No one smiles when a friend is ill.

Sanity demands that we laugh at ourselves. In fact laughter heals the soul, according to Solomon. But if it persists it could signal sickness, because sane people don't let years lapse without pursuing their dreams. Nor do they don apish grins when asked about their goals. If so, their laughter is sickness not salutary. Sane people don't use humor to hide their hurts or to silence their haunts (indefinitely at least). This is a tactic of the insane who use mirth to mask their lunacy. Yet beneath their hearty humor is a hurting child in need of healing.

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