In such a challenging world, smiling and laughter offer resilience and self-care
You have to laugh. So said a man to me 20 years ago in a pub conversation about painful events going on in the world – including infection and terrible conflicts.
Today, we have Gaza, war in Europe, armed conflict in Africa, the growing degradation of our climate, imminent disruption by artificial intelligence, mental health issues and plenty more you could add to the list. Back at the end of the 1960s, when I was in Naas hospital with appendicitis, an ambulance driver used to come into our ward during breaks and tell jokes that induced howls of laughter. It hurt like anything after surgery, but it turns out he was doing us all a favour.
As it turns out, we laugh less as we get older. “Healthy children laugh as much as 400 times a day, but older adults tend to laugh only 15 times per day.”
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