Lost: Sense of Humor
Somewhere over the weekend I lost my sense of humor. I wasn’t expecting to lose it and was caught off guard when I did. I had it on Saturday night while wearing Kyla’s ruby red slippers. I was feeling pretty good Sunday morning when Joe and I went for a walk.
Sometimes it seems that the better I feel, the harder I can be knocked down. Was it a remark I took too seriously? Some feedback I didn’t want to hear? Will I stuff my bad feelings in with the rest of my emotional baggage, or will my bad feelings just wear off in time? If I bury them, won’t they take root and sprout up at some other time? Can I just change my mind and not feel them anymore? Where do bad feelings go?
Driving to town Monday morning, on my way to play Scrabble with Mara, I spotted a single burnt-orange couch cushion lying in the middle of the road. I didn’t smile at the unlikely sight or stop to take a picture, as I normally would. Instead, the out-of-place sad cushion reminded me how out-of-place I felt. It was then that I knew I had lost my sense of humor. It was then that I decided I wanted it back.
November 21st, 2006 6:31 am
I know the feeling… I think mine has gone missing this morning, also. The image you put with this post suggests that at least some semblance of a sense of humor remains, though. I’m sure it will be back soon.
November 21st, 2006 6:39 am
I hope you find it again soon. I regularly lose my sense of humour and can completely relate to how frustrating it is.
November 21st, 2006 6:42 am
Sometimes my sense of humor hides in the closet behind the vacuum cleaner…did you look there?
November 21st, 2006 8:43 am
Behind the vaccum cleaner? I thought it had gone down the drain!
November 21st, 2006 9:42 am
I lose mine a lot this time of year!
Thanks for the visit, colleen. The room was really more red than pink, but I had to lighten the pics a little and it changed the color.
November 21st, 2006 9:52 am
Oh no! Retrace your steps, put on the ruby red slippers again, you must find it!
November 21st, 2006 10:17 am
Just imagine if your sense of humor had filled up the sink and over flowed…then you’d really be in a mess. Thank goodness we can pull the plug every once in awhile and let it drain…I guess it’s our body telling us it’s time to let go for a bit. Have a Happy Thanksgiving if I don’t get back to you before then. Fondly, Ginnie
November 21st, 2006 10:39 am
It may be the clouds, the lack of great sunshine, the cold north wind and the sad leaves blowing along all the highways. They looks so brown and shriveled and old. Some things about winter are grand, but right now, the in between is hard to take.
November 21st, 2006 11:21 am
*Employee of the Month*
Chuck Rogers, a self employed marketing consultant, has won his company’s ‘Employee of the Month Award’ for a record 23 months in a row. Said Rogers, “I began the award program nearly two years ago when my psychologist and business coach suggested that I needed to create a company plan for maintaining employee moral and building self-esteem.”
Rogers, who works alone from his home office, has received 100% of the votes for the ‘Employee of the Month Award’ since its inception. Said Rogers, “It feels really good every time I win the award. I am always surprised and flattered when the winner is announced. But the best part is that I get to use the special parking spot set aside for the winner. It is right next to the house. You can’t imagine what a benefit that has been!”
November 21st, 2006 11:32 am
I bought these new boots. They are made from possum and deer hide and
they feel great when I wear them. There is just one problem. When I see
headlights in the dark I get this uncontrollable urge to run into the
middle of the road and just stand there.
November 21st, 2006 11:34 am
I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder. But it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.
November 21st, 2006 11:37 am
How to Get Time Off from Work
Two factory workers were talking. “I know how to get some time off from
work.” said the man.”How do you think you will do that?” said the other
one. He proceeded to show her…by climbing up to the rafters, and
hanging upside down.
The boss walked in, saw the worker hanging from the ceiling, and asked
him what on earth he was doing? “I’m a light bulb” answered the guy.
“I think you need some time off,” said the boss. So, the man jumped down
and walked out of the factory. The second worker began walking out too.
The boss asked her where did she think she was going?
“Home. I can’t work in the dark.”
November 21st, 2006 11:50 am
The old farmer tried fish farming once, but had to give it up when his combine kept getting stuck in the lake.
November 21st, 2006 11:52 am
There once was an actor who was obsessed with doing trap door gags. Some critics thought he would keep doing them the rest of his life, while others said he was just going through a stage.
November 21st, 2006 12:00 pm
These should be on the front page! Thanks for the smiles, Stu_art. Do you collect jokes? Have you considered starting a humor blog?
November 21st, 2006 12:26 pm
I can totally relate to this post…damn my sensitivity
November 21st, 2006 12:35 pm
Boy do I ever know that feeling. It sucks, and I hope you get your wicked sense of humor back PRONTO.
Here’s wishing you a wry sandwich.
November 21st, 2006 12:42 pm
Last week I had one of the best days of my life and turned around to have one of the worst and I cried. I told Martin it wasn’t that it was so bad (what happened) it was just that I had been so very happy the day before and I didn’t like losing that.
My sense of humor will come back when my nose unstops and my heat cuts on!
I hope you find yours today just around the bend!
November 21st, 2006 1:53 pm
I blame it’s disappearance on world funk conditions.
The music obviously. 😉
Still, it’s bound to turn up underfoot when you least expect it. Probably scare the daylights out of each other but when you and your humor come to with Joe fanning you both and giving you water, things should start to sort themselves out.
November 21st, 2006 3:55 pm
(Good ones, stuart!)
I like the thought that the feelings could be buried and sprout up any time…you do never know when they might break the surface of the ground, do you? Hope it’s soon.
My sense of humour gets me through tons…I don’t know where I’d be or how I’d put the rotten stuff in perspective if I didn’t have that.
November 21st, 2006 5:20 pm
Watch tv for a bit = sooner or later a silly commercial will bring back the humor… 🙂
November 21st, 2006 9:39 pm
It’ll turn up again, Colleen….but make sure you’re paying attention and listening/looking for it. It does have a way of slipping away from us every now and again, and usually when we least expect it. Keep searching….it’s not lost, just taking a hiatus. And if all else fails…….get the plunger for that sink and force it back up again!
November 21st, 2006 9:46 pm
I’m with you… bad feelings left unexamined transmogrify. 🙂
I’d rather examine them, get underneathe them, and dismantle them.
I wonder how many people noticed that cushion, but not the humor?
~S
November 21st, 2006 10:56 pm
I’ve been so busy running around like a turkey with my head cut off, I hadn’t thought to look to see if my sense of humor had taken to the hills.
Hmmm.
I’ll worry about it later, I think.
In the meantime, a very happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Colleen.
November 22nd, 2006 6:18 am
One’s sense of humor does seem to come and go, doesn’t it? And sometimes it is mystifying…I hope you get it back, my dear…and if you happen to find mine out there—tell it I miss it!
January 30th, 2014 12:32 am
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