Happiness is a Choice...Laughter is Involuntary

I recently got facebook...that has nothing to do with this post...except that my youth pastor, Mike, recently asked for the best advice that people have. My best advice is one that I've had for a few years now, it says that happiness is a choice. I have found this to be very true. If you don't choose to be happy, it generally won't happen. Regardless of your situation, if you decide to be happy, it's possible.

My second point, in this post, is more of a personal statement about me...happiness may be a choice, but laughter is involuntary. If laughter qualifies as a spiritual gift, then I definitely have it. Laughter is an interesting thing, I might write an essay on it one day...but for school, it's not like I just write random essays =P

There are several things that make me laugh: jokes, anything I find funny, nervousness/awkwardness, when I embarrass myself, other people laughing, and silence. I never really understood that one, but when I'm in a group of people, and there's silence...I'm usually trying not to laugh. The one I find hilarious is that I laugh when I embarrass myself. This is because of my sometimes random bursts of laughter (if i find something funny), which will in turn embarrass me (like when it happened in sundayschool), which causes me to laugh more, which makes other people laugh, which makes me laugh more... This has become the source of at least one inside joke for my class on sunday mornings...am I really this hopeless?

One of my missions in life is to make people smile, and laughter is a bonus. When I was 11 I wanted to be a stand-up comedian...now it's just a hobby =P When I'm with other people that laugh a lot...well, it's a ton of fun =P Last night, I and some of my friends hung out, and one of them in particular likes to joke around a lot. I kid you not, there were numerous times when I was essentially in tears from laughing so hard...but so was the other guy so it's all cool =P

So what makes you laugh?