I’ve been told some number of times that I act calmly when I face problems. I don’t, but I do make it a point to laugh at said problems as I deal with them.

‘Laughing in the face of adversity’ is a somewhat common phrase that people would probably dismiss as another platitude, along with other phrases of the same tune, but I do like it.

I’m not at all telling you to go full on happy-go-lucky, no. It’s just that…once you’ve given up on something, that’s effectively the end of the line. You’ve locked yourself out. You’ve sealed your fate by declaring to yourself, ‘There is no point, therefore I will stop.’

When you consider your very life full of hardships or even a hardship itself, this is especially important. Declaring to yourself that you’ve given up on life means you’ve lost. You will stop living. Sure, perhaps you’ll technically be living in the physical sense, but what good is living soullessly?

Laugh at life – mock it, even – lest you lose yourself in the contingencies of life.

Once you’ve lost it all, your wit will be one of the last things, if not the only thing keeping you standing. No purpose? Invent one, rational or otherwise. So keep your wits about you.

Money is a joke. Politics are a joke. Relationships are a joke.

Life is a joke. So laugh.