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What makes a perfect day beginning? Is it chocolate, ice cream, vacations, hugs from children, a perfect night's sleep, good breakfast, or the satisfaction of a job well done? A thousand people, a thousand different answers. But one supreme pleasure that spans all people is laughter. Many will agree that a good healthy body, regular work outs and nutritious food cannot do as much good to your body as heartiest laughter. Little can compare to the feeling of a deep, complete, heartfelt laughing spell. No matter your age, wealth, race, or living situation, life is good when laughter is frequent.

After years of practice and experience, I now, am in a position to say that I might not have the best sense of humor but I am satisfied with the fact that I do make many people laugh.

To lighten up your day, try these: When you wake up in the morning, make sure to have a smile on your face “Fake it till you make it”. Listen to music that you love, treat yourself with comedy festival, Rent movies like Meet the Parents; Young Frankenstein; Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; This Is Spinal Tap; Animal House; Finding Nemo. Have a ha-ha bulletin board where you only post funny sayings or signs. If that doesn’t work, here’s a tip that cannot go in vain (Its tried and experimented a million times): Spend 15 minutes a day having a giggling session. Here's how you do it: You and another person (partner, kid, friend, etc.) lay on the floor with your head on her stomach, and her head on another person's stomach and so on (the more people the better). The first person says, "Ha." The next person says, "Ha-ha." The third person says, "Ha-ha-ha." And so on. It’s guaranteed that you'll be laughing in no time. Read up funny articles, take out time from work and read those funny forwards that have been taking up the entire place in your mail box. Try your jokes on your friends before trying it on your seniors. But don't laugh at everything, especially the things that aren't funny. And if you are a victim of “He who laughs last didn't get the joke", then pretend that you weren’t paying attention, clutch your stomach, close your eyes and throw your head back.

BTW an important aspect of humor is IQ. The extent, to which an individual will find something humorous, depends on his IQ. Like, when we were kids, cartoons (Tom & Jerry) were funny; when we grew up, I dream of Jinnie was funny; a little more matured, Dekh Bhai Dekh was hilarious, then came Full House, later FRIENDS was funny and so on….

So, you need to be well aware, who your target audience is. That also reminds me that telling a racist joke to someone of another race will most likely turn into you getting a black eye or suspended from school, fired from work, etc. (Except for Russell Peter. Man! That guy can pull off any kind of joke).

Most importantly, have a bunch of friends who make you laugh. Any time of day, if you are feeling low, you must be able to reach out to those friends and lighten up your day. Keep away from whining and cribbing friends and make your funny friends circle bigger. I am one of the very few lucky ones, who has always been surrounded by friends that can make me laugh (By laugh I mean laugh out so loud that tears roll down my cheeks) at any point of day and I can be rest assured that they will be always beside me.

Courtesy :Huzzu, Dujju, Vincy, Shek, Benny, Sanam, Rohit, Shanu, Binoy, Bodhi and many more