on laughing matter

I just finished watching Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid on HBO. It's a movie that I've been eyeing ever since its trailer made me laugh so hard. Unfortunately, its DVD never made it to my nearest VideoEzy. So, HBO it is.

Anyway, hours after watching the movie, I realized that I really laughed outloud. It got me thinking of the last time I did that. I was kinda shocked to know that it was a long while back.

Is it really difficult now to laugh silly for ourselves?

I would think that it has everything to do with the situation we're all in now. Every time I open the newspaper or read online, it's always the same thing about people losing job or getting pay cut, and how number for a certain company or country is getting worse. It's making life even more depressing and difficult.

Amidst the gloom, the box office revenue tracker in America reported that movie income this year is actually increasing. A sign that more and more people try to get a quick solace from all of the stressing stuffs.

I know that for some people it's a luxury now to go to the movie to get the quick fix. But you can always find comforting things from anywhere.

It could be a quiet dinner moment alone with your spouse, a giggle from your baby, chatting with friends about nothing in particular, or in my case getting a chance to keep in touch with my elementary school friends and reminisce about things that happened 20 years ago in our lives.

It's strange that you can't help but smile now at things that made your knees weak two decades ago. But if it puts a smile to your face, and make your 9-to-5 bearable a bit longer, then do it and do that even more.

While a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel isn't too much to ask. There's no harm in keeping our hopes up.

May we all be safe and keep uploading those old pictures online!