Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Once you realise your life is a joke, it makes things slightly easier. Don't go too fast or no one will catch the punchline. Don't go too slow or people will lose interest and not bother listening. Keep the right momentum going, stress the right words, stick to the right rhythm. Be aware of your audience, or the fact that there is none. At the end, deliver the punchline with everything you've got, in the hopes that people will remember it and retell it time and time again. And if they don't, who gives a shit?
It shouldn't bother you if they laugh at you, not with you. Or if they don't laugh at all. It doesn't matter if they think you ripped off some other guy's material or that they've heard it all before. What's important is that at the end - just laugh as hard as you possibly can. Laugh til the blood vessels in your eyes burst, or your stomach aches so much you need to throw up. Just laugh and don't even pause to consider if doing so is pathetic. Because if you don't laugh, who the hell will?
Nobody's asking you to be a walking Cheerio or to throw rainbow sprinkles in every direction. It's just that if there's one thing you need to learn in life, it's how to laugh at yourself, and life, and your life - because these aren't necessarily the same thing put together. And if you have to be competitive, make damn sure you laugh at yourself before anyone else does.
So make the best damn joke of your life. And if it helps, I'll promise to laugh at your joke if you promise to laugh at mine.
brin bit this at ; 2:16 AM
