Find Your Funny!

Find Your Funny!

©Allen Merritt (2015)

Several years ago I wrote a children’s book manuscript entitled Find Your Funny. I sent it out to publishers only to have it returned along with about 60 rejection letters. Wow! Publishing, as it is with any other industry, is a tough business to navigate. Rejection is common, because publishing houses only have so much money to invest annually in producing new works. This is understandable. It is about careful selection more than rejection.

What I found most interesting about the experience on hindsight is how these professionals took the time to send a notice and touch base with you regardless of the outcome. Other job interviews or audition situations are not so kind. In many cases, they don’t even provide such a professional courtesy, so you feel like a fish out of water. It is all very humorous, which is what my little manuscript was all about; finding humor and turning things around into something positive.

When life isn’t ‘Oh, so sunny.’

Go out there and find your funny!

I love humor. I love jokes. I love funny songs. I love silliness.

Humor helps keep me in a good state of mind and maintains a light spirit throughout my day, especially when the rat race, expectations of others and negative distractions are doing everything they can to make me the target of bombardment and take me out of the race.

I think most people see humor as an aide to happiness. And, what people find funny varies according to their personalities. Some people think anything profane and potty-mouthed is funny. I think a true comedian is able to make us laugh without the need to build in potential offensiveness albeit a little crude and profane can provide laughing results.

The television show Americas Funniest Videos makes us laugh over silly, strange and stupid. Several other shows demonstrate humor along this vein. I love watching the Impractical Jokers about a group of friends who challenge each other through pranks and the loser ends up in a funny and sometimes demeaning ‘punishment’.

There are many ways to find our funny and let go of sadness, madness and negative thoughts.

I personally enjoy funny songs. You know, the ones that tell a humorous story set to music. A few that come to mind include Here’s Your Sign by Bill Engvall. It pokes fun at stupidity. Or, how about last year’s hit by Weird Al Yankovic of Pharrell’s HAPPY called TACKY? That was fun.

Ultimately, and on a positive note, if you want to find a way to turn things around, look at humorous situations, comedians, songs, television sitcoms and movies to help provide an outlet and an escape to the dull, mundane and/or difficult.

Here is a link to TACKY. Copy and paste it into your URL for a little fun.  Enjoy it and don’t forget to go out there this week and Find Your Funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o

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