I went to the bookstore to get some work done and decided
that would be a great place to listen it to people’s laughter. A lot of people
go to the bookstore to get a coffee with friends, so I knew it would be long
until I heard some laughs. Sure enough a group of girls sitting at a table
across from me started laughing at something on their laptop. I turned my attention
to them tried to pick up on the funny subject. One of the girls told a story
about how she looks awful in the pictures that so-and-so tagged of her on Facebook
and was pretty pissed that so-and-so put them online. She was saying that she
only like pictures where she look nice to be up for people to see. I did not
really get where the laughter can in to this story until one of the girls
turned the laptop around and said that this was a perfect example of who she
was then. I looked at the laptop and saw two pictures of a black cat-one where
the cat was laying down and the other was of the cat bug-eyed and mouth open. I
could tell from the website that they were on Pinterest so I looked up the photo
so that I could show it along with my blog. I thought that it was really funny
too! I laughed. I think the humor is in the reality aspect. We can pose and
look pretty for a picture, but candid photos are not always beautiful
representations of ourselves. But from the conversation I listened in to I can
see where the humor was coming from.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post and I, too, had a little trouble determining why the laughter was coming from certain situations. It's amazing that when we listen in on conversations, we recognize how people get so caught up on such trivial aspects of life that they often neglect the enjoyment of life, such as laughter.
When I was listening in on conversations, I realized that people criticize, complain and grumble about unimportant things, and that these days, laughter is sometimes hard to come by.
-Amanda