21 Habits of Happy People
8. Laugh - “Don’t take yourself – or life to seriously. You can find humor in just about any situation. Laugh at yourself – no one’s perfect. When appropriate laugh and make light of the circumstances. (Naturally there are times that you should be serious as it would be improper to laugh.)”
“Life is for living and for laughing!” If you can’t laugh at yourself you are taking yourself way to seriously. Not to mention the stress of living like that. Let me tell you the story of my first steady gig.
I had secured a gig in a pub on Sunday afternoons. They wanted a quartet to play standards, with a vocalist. Great! It was early in my career and so it was wonderful to have a place to try out new arrangements and build my book. We get out to this place the first time out and we have a decent crowd of jazz fans which is nice. We play our first set, then our second set and as we come close to finishing up the third set, I say that we want to thank people for coming out and we are going to play our last tune of the day. Someone in the back corner of the room yells out, “GOOD!” No word of a lie. Well, I remember that I just started laughing and said everyone was entitled to their opinion. Then I sang my song. What else can you do?
Life hurdles are a whole lot smaller when you can laugh and make light of any challenges. Go ahead and trip up once in a while. It means you tried something and laughing at our blunders usually means we will find the courage to give it another go.
For the record I had that gig for two and half years and I learned a lot.
Namaste!
Bianca
This personal blog was written by Bianca Pittoors. You may “share” it in its entirety. I respectfully request that you respect it as the intellectual property that it is. Thank you!
Bianca Pittoors & Marc Langis are Bianca Basso. Creators of original music, they are distinctive in their contemporary style.
Photo by Jack Pittoors-McMahon
8. Laugh - “Don’t take yourself – or life to seriously. You can find humor in just about any situation. Laugh at yourself – no one’s perfect. When appropriate laugh and make light of the circumstances. (Naturally there are times that you should be serious as it would be improper to laugh.)”
“Life is for living and for laughing!” If you can’t laugh at yourself you are taking yourself way to seriously. Not to mention the stress of living like that. Let me tell you the story of my first steady gig.
I had secured a gig in a pub on Sunday afternoons. They wanted a quartet to play standards, with a vocalist. Great! It was early in my career and so it was wonderful to have a place to try out new arrangements and build my book. We get out to this place the first time out and we have a decent crowd of jazz fans which is nice. We play our first set, then our second set and as we come close to finishing up the third set, I say that we want to thank people for coming out and we are going to play our last tune of the day. Someone in the back corner of the room yells out, “GOOD!” No word of a lie. Well, I remember that I just started laughing and said everyone was entitled to their opinion. Then I sang my song. What else can you do?
Life hurdles are a whole lot smaller when you can laugh and make light of any challenges. Go ahead and trip up once in a while. It means you tried something and laughing at our blunders usually means we will find the courage to give it another go.
For the record I had that gig for two and half years and I learned a lot.
Namaste!
Bianca
This personal blog was written by Bianca Pittoors. You may “share” it in its entirety. I respectfully request that you respect it as the intellectual property that it is. Thank you!
Bianca Pittoors & Marc Langis are Bianca Basso. Creators of original music, they are distinctive in their contemporary style.
Photo by Jack Pittoors-McMahon