Just Laugh It’ll be Alright

Laughing is the greatest cure for awkward or even sad situations that people don’t want to admit the truth about. A lot of times people will laugh during a time of a setback or failure as a way to coupe with the situation. From what I have seen it is one of the most common ways to cope with stressful situations or difficult/sad situations. For example when someone screws up a line during a play most of the time they will give a little giggle to coupe with the situation from being awkward or nerve racking. I know plenty of scenarios when people do this everyday. But one situation really sticks out me and actually happened to me.

Between high school and middle school relationships end and some other relationships start between friends. As I got into high school I kept most of the friends I had from middle school. But the year that most of my friend went down the wrong path was sophomore year. I kept my head to the grindstone and continued to exceed in school and focus on sports and cherish my family like always. While some of my other friends were ignoring homework/school and started closing their lives off from their parents. I didn’t want to start acting like them because I always kept my perspectives in hindsight. I knew that success now will allow me to live comfortably later and give me success later. For some reason these kids do not realize that.

A lot of my old friends are pretty much ruining their lives with dumb choices. I prefer not to hang out with them because of the choices they make and the things they do. The reason I talked about this is because it’s senior year and those bad choices they have been making came back and bit some of the in the butt. In which it is affecting school and sports for them. It’s sad to say this but all I can do is laugh and say “I told you so in my brain”. What I thought about this situation is doing all of those bad things is cool right now but but it will screw something up later. This is a good example because it was a challenge to try to not go down the wrong path and now all I can do is laugh because I was right about the entire thing. Plus it made me a more responsible and mature person to this day.

I can clearly think of a time when my inability to laugh at a situation changed my attitude towards the whole situation. Ever since I was in sixth grade I have trained year round for the sport I love, which is baseball. And as many people know I am a very competitive person. So during my junior year season we had been losing a lot. I think we had five losses in a row or something like that. I was very irritated not with the team but with just the situation the team was in. Especially when I was a freshman playing on varsity we had a decent record and even made playoffs.

To go back on my junior year. We had just played Hall Dale which was one of the best teams in the league and it did not go well. Which is an understatement. I believe we lost 16 to 2 or something crazy like that. Everyone was very discouraged about the season and how it was going but not as discouraged as I thought. On the bus ride home everyone was back to normal again laughing and joking around like we didn’t just get our butts handed to us on the field. At that moment my inability to just laugh it off changed my attitude towards the situation. I told myself I would try my best to never allow this to happen again. Basically I was embarrassed with our  performance on the field.

I think in certain situations it is alright to laugh when going through struggles or some kind of embarrassment. But also other times the inability just laugh about it is intake as well. It all depends on the person and the situation or struggle the person is having to go through. But in both of my stories the inability to laugh and the ability to laugh both changed my attitude towards the situation in many ways.

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