Persuasive Attributes That Captivate Your Readers Attention
Is laughter more powerful than melancholy?
Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.- John Cleese
People like Jerry Seinfeld or Trevor Noah are gods of the modern world. They personify humor in its best and pure way by ridiculing life itself whenever they can.
We live in a society that fetishizes laughter.
Yet, there are always two choices you have to face in life. Or you laugh, or you cry. Or you see humor on it. Or you see sadness.
For centuries, brilliantly, society found that it’s much better to laugh about life.
In life, you pass through so many pain episodes, losing someone, being rejected by someone, having a disease, or another hard thing to deal with.
Like my dear mentor, Jim Rohn usually said:
When something wrong happens to you, you should always ask yourself the question: Isn’t that interesting?
Family: we love, we laugh, we play, we love.
My father passed away three years ago. He was the most serene person I ever met.
My best friend Xavier always remembers my dad’s voice when he’s angry with something. All the calm and serenity was in his voice, his pace, his gestures.
Yet, at the dinner table, my father transformed himself into a world-class comedian.
He was so happy for that special moment of the day. He just started saying things when we all gather at dinner time — usually, silly things. But for my sister and me, we loved it.
The conversation always ended in weird stories about the bathroom. And we laugh until we couldn’t take the belly pain anymore.
My mother was always freaking out with my dad. She always gets furious because we were eating. And the three of us were laughing like crazy, at dinner time, about a smelly topic.
My father usually quote something I’ll never forget:
Always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your life. But it will surely add life to your years.
Tears are words that need to be written.
Sadness is quite rare.
You can remember the last few times you laugh. Yet, you rarely want to remember a moment of deep, reflective sadness.
It happens, but it’s rare.
You can laugh 20 times a day. You can have a crazy laughter moment twice a week. However, a sorrowful moment doesn’t come frequently.
And maybe that’s why it is so powerful.
So, the task of observing or describing a profound moment of sadness it’s much more difficult but much more powerful.
Maybe because it’s rare. Maybe because of the fact that pain creates an audition.
Or maybe it’s because people are always waiting for the inversion of the pain story. People hang on to a sad tale intending to find in the following words hope and tools to find the solution to a happy end.
She’s been through hell and came out an angel. You didn’t break her, darling. You don’t own that kind of power.- BMM Poetry
Emotions make part of who we are as humans. Sad days are no different. And there’s a kind of beauty in sorrow.
Profound sadness resulted in some of the best melodies and poetry humans ever made.
Life is unpredictable,
It changes with the seasons,
Even your coldest winter,
Happens for the best of reasons,
And though it feels eternal,
Like all you’ll ever do is freeze,
I promise spring is coming,
And with it, brand new leaves.
-e,h
Extraordinary thing if I can provoke deep reflective emotion in someone.
I am all love. I’m a lovable guy.
Rare are the moments I’m sad. Sometimes I’m disappointed, but even that is rare.
I love to write about absolute love.
And that is a problem for a writer (is it?). Pain and sorrow are compelling emotions. If you can write a good story that reflects a deep emotional pain, you’re a god.
You connect with more people if you write about a painful situation. It opens the memory of the reader, and that’s it. You got them.
If you have the art and the skills to show your readers the beauty within that pain, you earn their respect. You begin to understand the sorrow. You see the beauty in sadness.
To some extent, you are determined to find the collateral beauty that exists in pain and suffering.
And collateral beauty is about love. About loving the painful moments. There’s a unique beauty in it.
So, I’ll keep writing about love- unconditional love.
And so, I will absolutely write about pain.
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