Are age-related jokes past it?

[seavixen32]

I feel that if we can't laugh at ourselves, the ability to enjoy life is diminished, more so as we get get older.

As you get older you do become more aware of your own mortality, which can lead to some quite negative thoughts. My way of dealing with that is to look for the funny side of everything, which there invariably is.

Just recently, a top soccer player in the UK collapsed on the pitch with a massive heart attack and despite the best efforts of the paramedics, doctors and a heart specialist who was in the crowd, effectively died for 78 minutes.

Although still in intensive care he is making a remarkable recovery and has been laughing and joking with the team looking after him.

Various news reports have all stressed the same thing and that is the player concerned always has a ready smile for anyone and always looks for the funny side of life, so it would appear that a sense of humour and a positive outlook can aid recovery.

It's better to be a live optimist than a dead pessimist, that's for sure.

 

[seekermeister]

Not necessarily, both optimism and pessimism are based on a false view of reality. Of course, reality is in the eye of the beholder, and may be considered either good or bad by someone else. All things have both a curse and blessing attached to them, and that includes life and death. It comes down to where one places their faith and hope.

 

[profdlp]

Reality "is".

 

[seekermeister]

Reality "is".

Again, yes and no. If we equate reality with truth, then it is inviolable, without regard to perception, but since none of us knows everything that is true, we fill in the blanks with our perceptions. Therefore we judge truth as best as we can. That judgment has no effect on the truth, but it may have a great deal of effect on us.

 

[profdlp]

Three really old guys went into a bar.

After a few drinks one of them said "Reality is".

The second really old guy says, "I really gotta whiz, too - where's the can?"

The third really old guy said "I already did - pass the pretzels".

Then the bartender took a club from under the bar and hit himself over the head with it for hours and hours and hours and hours...

 

[seekermeister]

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

 

[profdlp]

Found a pic of the bartender - and he's an OLD dude!