GRAPHIC/STEPHANIE MA
By YUKO USUI | STAFF WRITER
Many people often say that laughter is the best medicine, but how much truth lies behind these five words?
I personally believe that joke-telling must be told with full respect toward the joke itself; each word in the antic is essential. If you’re not going to mean it, why say it?
Just like an empty apology, an empty joke without proper sentiment behind the voice is dead, lifeless. Laughing at such a pathetic outburst of meaninglessness is just as pathetic as listening to it.
In my years of obsessing over “lame” jokes, mainly puns, I have acquired many strange looks and reactions that break my heart. Most people’s first impulse upon hearing my puns is laughter, yet they follow the millisecond of satisfaction with a crude comment or two.
I do not understand why the haters cannot express their true feelings of happiness upon hearing the beauty of my simple-minded humor. They snort, after all, so it would only make sense for them to carry through with their feelings and express it whole-heartedly without any shame!
Compared to all the tasteless, highly inappropriate jokes that seem popular in today’s society, I think my puns are beautiful.
Puns are so wonderful; they have multiple meanings and are so magnificently thought out. I am one of the few people I know who can think of puns on the spot in any situations, and I take pride in my “dumb” humor.
There aren’t many circumstances in which one can say something witty to break the ice on the spot, especially one that can mean so much more than what meets the EARS.
I nurture my puns and think of them like my own un-born children, and I honestly take pride in them so greatly that I have cried on numerous occasions after hearing them, both from laughter and from the pure beauty of the art.
Puns have played such a big role in my life to the point where I am thinking about them nonstop, regardless of whether I’m doing my homework, marching from set-to-set in band rehearsals, watching television, or even when I’m about to sleep.
When met with nothing to do, I typically look up new jokes and laugh tirelessly for hours on end, while other teens pour their hearts and souls into pitiful statuses on social media sites and aimlessly look up pictures of happy teenage couples holding hands.
My life has more meaning, if you ask me.