insightful rhymes…
I’m beginning to think there’s a special pathway in my brain that just associates random words that sound alike. Maybe that’s how I always seem to think of the so-called jokes and end up getting called names like corny/funny/punny penny. The laughs I get seem to be inversely proportional to how long a person has known me for. Someone who’s just met me might think I’m the funniest person alive and laugh heaps. Someone who sees me everyday just goes urgghh and rolls their eyes (out of the kindness of their hearts because I suspect they’re screaming SHUTUPPENNY inside). I think it loses the effect if it’s done everyday, but when the eye-rollers do laugh, it means I just came up with something absolutely BRILLIANTO! Anyway I don’t do it for the laughs so that’s ok (which also explains why I still do it when people don’t laugh). I think I just say silly things coz I think silly sometimes (when I’m not thinking serious). Oh and I suspect it’s genetics as well coz my whole family makes good jokes, intentionally or unintentionally (some mums make good cakes, mine makes good jokes har har) . I’ve considered writing a book on teaching people how to tell jokes, not just a book filled with jokes - I think everyone can come up with something original.
Anyway this morning my word association pathways did me some good when I was doing some reflections…
That with the pains in life, if they’re not relieved, they are re-lived.
And with the wrongdoings in life, if we don’t re-pent, we re-peat.
Sometimes the fastest and biggest progress we can make in life is a 180 degree turnaround.
