What’s Funny About Being An Addicted Human
Or Being An Addicted Counselor Who Likes Jokes
Cushioning life.
There is quite a lot about being human that is amusing, weird, exciting, and annoying. What exactly does it mean to be “funny” or “serious?”
Humanity is chocked full of entertaining qualities. One of these is a characteristic when someone forms something new and valuable, like a joke. Or an invention like the whoopie cushion.
Coming up with newness.
Creativity in the species keeps us entertained. The highly creative among us are exciting and likely to be open-minded and up for all kinds of things. Someone who can make us laugh and get the joke is someone we are likely to like.
Those funny human qualities that make us laugh are probably inborn to us. The things that make humans different from other species appear to have developed through seeing and sensing life. There were just some things that tickled our evolving funny bones.
Early humans learned it.
The carefully observing early hunter saw animals play fighting, or even tickling each other. Humans eventually discovered fire, tools, the wheel, and enjoying laughter.
Through observation, we notice little details in the people and things around us. We learned to see more things that we can poke fun at. Laughter became that strange sound that elicited pure joy.
We find our day is empty without laughing until our tummy is tired. And we have discovered that uproarious laughter helps cure us of our ailments.
Drug rehab counseling.
What I learned from my counseling experience in rehab is that negativity is incredibly draining. It stifles creativity, hampers productivity, and can even lead to physical health problems.
It creeps up on you, pulling you down, making everything seem more complicated than it is. But bad days don’t have to turn into a way of life.
People in addiction treatment ignored sleep, nutrition, and good habits before admission. For some time, they’re less focused, suffer poor memories, and have compromised performance abilities.
They’re prone to dwell on past mistakes and get stuck looking at the roadblock to progress rather than detouring through detox.
Our mind comes to our rescue.
The fuel to success that overcomes obstacles and keeps us going even when the odds are stacked against us is the drive to embrace opportunities and take risks. So, we use our uncanny ability to look at a typical situation and see its humor that the rest don’t.
We find that smiling stimulates the amygdala. That’s the part of our brain that releases our feel-good neurotransmitters. Smiling alone can trick the brain into thinking you’re happy!
I can imagine saying things I consider hilarious during a treatment center class.
It’s kind of like giving a party, and nobody comes.
Here goes!
Good afternoon, group! Today’s topic is “Addiction.” But first, a little about myself.
I was once addicted to the hokey pokey, but thankfully, I turned myself around. I knew a mechanic who said he wasn’t addicted to brake fluid. He said he could stop whenever he wanted.
Hey! What do you call a light bulb with a shining addiction? A glowing alcoholic. So, then the light bulb went to therapy. It needed help dealing with its burning issues.
I know some of you smoke. So, why did the nicotine patch cross the road? Because it was stuck to the shoe of a person earnestly trying to cross the road. To get to the smoke shop.
My friend is addicted to drinking water. It’s okay. He’s pretty fluid about it. He was also addicted to soap, but he’s clean now.
My addiction to ice cream was super chilling until I found it was all just soft serve. I was addicted to hide and seek until I realized I was just stuck in a pattern of avoidance.
Another man tells his doctor he’s got a severe addiction to sarcasm. The doctor replies, “Oh really? And how is that affecting your daily life?” The man said, “It’s just fantastic, doctor. Couldn’t be better.”
Plenty of funny things happen in life, but not perhaps during my imagined lecture on addiction humor.
