WIKI-DEFINITION: A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, and context.
With era of Phattas and PJs flourishing, I thought it wise to explore this topic. Sense of humour is a unique quality. It is a powerful weapon against stress, tension and problems. It forces individual to look life from a different angle. It lightens the mood and refrain us from being pessimistic. Humour titillates us; it is the way to add life to every situation.
Do you have good sense of humour??? If not, how to build on this???This is really a difficult question to answer. I can only share my views.
I think improving upon your wit and humour is an ongoing and never-ending process. There are various forms of humour and every being has his/her own way. Sometimes I say things which I think are funny, but others don’t and vice-versa. First thing to develop your sense of humour is to have confidence that you are witty and smart. There may be some people around you, who are wittier and funnier than you, but ignore that….you have your own style!!
Being fluent with your language and thoughts is a must for possessing a good sense of humour. We must be able to play around with words and sentences and decorate them with puns, oxymorons, satires, irony and enough of sarcasm. We should be able to think of humourous situations close to that. Your way of interpreting an otherwise normal word/sentence may tag it funny or humorous.
Laughing frequently and appreciating other people jokes and wit is also important. Encountering any situation, you must be able to cook up a humour in your mind and laugh in your head. This will also add fun to everything and you seem to be enjoying each and every thing you do. Watching comedy shows and movies also have some effect on improving sense of humour.
Let me remind you these are not the ways to crack Phattas or PJs. These are the ways to amuse everyone including self, with quality and wits. It’s an art and we must master it, but our humourous talks shouldn’t be offensive and cacophonous. Otherwise instead of adding liveliness it would subtract mates.
PS1: This piece on ‘Sense Of Humour’ is not at all humorous!!!
PS2: Vacations are about to end and I am feeling excited ( returning to college
) as well as sad (I’ll miss home
).