“Everything has three sides, a positive one, a negative one and a funny one.” 

Karl Valentin 

“Try to find the funny side of the current situation. If you’re too close to it, it gets serious. The further away, the funnier it gets.” 

Steve Martin 

When we set out to do great things but trip over our shoelaces along the way, that’s when humor comes into play. If we chase the dog away 10 times that doesn’t want to understand that it’s not wanted and it keeps coming back, at some point it just starts to look funny. 

Humor is one of the most important forces in the universe. It has an inherent magical power. The conditioned mind tends to take things important and serious, it knows irony and sarcasm rather than humor. However, you can also ‘laugh from the heart’ at the same situation. 

Laughter disarms and unites. It brings ease and new courage. A situation may be hopeless, but it doesn’t have to be serious. As Karl Valentin said, don’t take things as tragic as they are.