28 March, 2009

Uncontrollable Laughing…

One of my best friends from high school has this gift of laughing continuously, without a gap. Whatever may be the reason, however simple the joke might be, he just laughs out loud.

Once when we were in sixth standard, during a mathematics class, when the teacher was busy solving a problem on the black board, there was a tiny joke cracked in the back benches. The joke soon spread to the whole class. This friend of mine, who was sitting beside me, started laughing loudly, uncontrollably and in full volume of his throat.

The teacher turned back, came running towards our bench and gave him a tight slap and told him to get out of the class. The slap was so hard that his face turned red and one could clearly spot four big finger marks on his fair cheek. After the class, I went in search of him; I expected him to be sad and guilty and prepared myself to comfort him.

Just then, I heard loud laughing, so loud that the person who was laughing might have definitely heard the best joke of this millennium or the joke of a lifetime. I turned round the corridor and found a group of students. Among them, I spotted this same old friend of mine, who was again into loud uncontrollable laughing. It was a nice move that he managed to not only forget the pain of the slap but he got himself into happy mood again.

Laughing is considered to be the best exercise for both the heart and the brain. Once you start to smile and laugh, there is joy coming from your heart, which is the most effective way to supply oxygen to the brain.

Laughter, along with a healthy sense of humor is good for our heart. Yes, it is definitely the best medicine to our body and a regular, hearty laughter should be added to the list of our daily activities.

So friends, the next time you hear a funny joke, just go ahead to fully flex your facial muscles by laughing out loud uncontrollably...

13 comments:

Sandhya said...

Some things we never forget from our childhood. Funny person, should we say?!

Did you meet him afterwards? He might not be the same now.

Lala said...

Sweet memories of childhood... and are you still in contact with this friend? if not, you should find him... a good laugh does us all a whole lot of good.

Sandhaya, i do wish he is the same now. We could all use such a person in this world...

Sai Charan said...

Well, Sandhyaji and Animesh Bhai, thanks a lot for your respective comments.

We both are in touch since school days and even today, I meet him regularly.

He laughs more loudly now, than what he used to do as a kid but he learnt to control himself when he is present at important public meetings :)

Sai Charan said...

Sincere request from my side to both Sandhyaji and Animesh Bhai.

--> Some of my friends, who read this post yesterday called me and suggested me to give a more meaningful and optimistic conclusion to this post.

They told me that it looked like a half-cooked dish. I agreed with their idea and revised this post.
So, here it is, now fully-cooked and has that positive aroma.

I request all my readers to re-visit this post at your leisure and tell me if you liked the changes.

Sandhya said...

Now, this is typical Sai Charan blog!

What you said is right. Laughter is the best medicine. Yes, lot of oxygen goes inside...and taking the lighter side of most of the things is good, you know. We don't get tensed up easily, if we are not into finding fault with anything and everything.

Good post, Sai!

Sandhya said...
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Margaret said...

Laughter is definitely the best medicine. If only we'd all laugh more often.
It's worth watching children, they still know how to laugh. Something a lot of adults have sadly forgotten.

R. Ramesh said...

very interesting guy..this friend of yours..good..lets laugh our heart out...hahahahahahah

Sai Charan said...

Thanks a million to both Margaret and Ramesh Bhai for your respective opinions :)

Let us together form a blogger laugh club and laugh our hearts out :) What do you people say?

Onkar said...

Absolutely correct. One who can laugh like your friend is very lucky.

R. Ramesh said...

hey buddyyy..where the hell r u man.missing u..wishes. rr

Margaret said...

Hi Charan

There's an award waiting for you to pick up over at my blog. Come and get it...

Sandhya said...

Busy? Take care.