Is It Possible to Lose Something So Precious as Your “Funny”?
Getting serious might have serious consequences
Following my #TwelveDaysOfKindness series, Gaurav Jain wrote the following comment…
“Can we have the funny Sally back now, please? Show some kindness, will ya?”
Of course, Funny Sally loves to be wanted.
Funny Sally is the Leo in me and there’s nothing she wants more than to flaunt herself in as big of a way as possible.
But then a thought occurred to me:
What if Funny Sally has got lost?
What if, with all this serious “kindness” stuff, my “funny” went away and never came back?
Jeepers, the pressure….
That, on its own, is enough to make my Funny run and hide and never come out until it’s safe.
Which might take years if things go really downhill.
It was at this point that I began to realise what a Very Serious Matter this was!
The thing is, although I live in divinely beautiful, rural parts of lush, green England, it’s a dark and soggy place for a lot of the winter months. The green fades into murky brown, and the grey becomes the fifty-first shade on the darker end of the greyscale.
When it’s like this for days on end, it’s very easy to feel just as dark grey in temperament. And in a dark grey world, with a meagre splash of brown-covered green, everything can seem that much more gloomy and…well…unfunny.
Our Funny can get very lost only too easily.
Just in case you didn’t get the severity of the situation, let me make it very clear…
Our Funny can get very lost…just like that…in the blink of an eye!
It’s at times like this that we need as much help as possible to find and keep our Funny. Whatever it takes for we can’t take any chances at all.
But the question remains…how do we find, and keep, our Funny?
Brainstorming the Funny
Searching high and low didn’t help.
- Under my pillow was just Flat.
- Inside my bed was just Cosy.
- In the kitchen, there were very serious Food Matters going on.
- And in the softly silent living room, it was just Super Chilled.
I had to think on my feet…and brainstorm!
The question I asked myself was this:
Who understands Funny best?
Easy peasy! — Children and cats.
First I asked my ginger fluff-ball, Leela, while she was busily attacking the stairs. This is what she had to say:
That Look was all I got!
I definitely found some hint of Ridiculous and Chortle-Worthy there but when I tried getting into that position on the stairs I was mighty uncomfortable.
I tried asking my giggly girls, but they only came out with some inside TikTok jokes that only people who aren’t “old” — like they always tell me I am — could be party to.
Finally, I realised I needed to go back to what I know and love best.
Medium!
And there, low and behold, was a stream of Funny practically pouring out of my screen.
From the slew of shit tags of this piece by Smillew Rahcuef:
Through this definitive guide to Lindsay Rae Brown aka the Queen of Comedy’s hell-ridden crimes:
And this outrageous must-have for every writer, new and old, by Hogan Torah:
Not to miss out on this piece by Sarah Paris, which I discovered only after I had written the rest of the piece you’re reading now, but I had to include because...well, you’ll see…
To this hilarious piece from Michael Burg, MD (AKA Medium Michael Burg), because highlighting Medium’s fails at making any useful difference to writer’s lives through “Top Writer Badges” needed doing in the best possible way:
And then this one by Edward John just had me giggling for the pure goof factor:
The one person in the household who I had not gotten around to asking was my nine-year-old son.
Yesterday morning he came into my bed for cuddles.
“You’re the best mum in the world,” He said, as he snuggled in, in that scrumptious way only children can.
“And you’re the second-best mum in the world,” I replied, equally snuggly, but probably not quite as scrumptiously.
“MUUUUMM!” He yelled. “I’ve been over this already!”
That turn of phrase 🤣 It had me roaring and I was put firmly in my place!
The little smarty-pants got pretty Funny!
Conclusion
It’s all going to be okay!
I may or may not have lost my Funny, but I have faith that I am well surrounded by plenty of Funny shared by others; enough to help restore any loss that may have occurred in recent times.
All. Will. Be. Well.
Phew!
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