3 Life Lessons from Chewbacca Mom

If you haven’t seen this yet, you absolutely must. watch. this. video. Happy Chewbacca mom has gone viral, and for good reason. I was on the floor, couldn’t catch my breath, tears running down my eyes, hysterical with laughter while watching. Take a look for yourselves in the video below.

I watched this video over and over again, every time better than the first. And the more I watched, the more I realized there were some pretty important life lessons about happiness that could be taken away. Here we go:

1. Let’s take ourselves a little less seriously. I mean really people. If there is one thing Happy Chewbacca Mom isn’t, it’s self conscious. She is not afraid to be herself. She is not afraid to be or look stupid. She could give two flying figs what others think of her. Happy Chewbacca Mom is fully herself, in a way that nobody else could be, and that is what draws us to her. Her ability to be crazy, silly, weird, and embrace it all, is beyond reproach. We could all use a little more of that in this life.
2. Let’s laugh more. Happy Chewbacca Mom keeps cracking herself up with her mask and its garbled noises. The more she laughs, the more we laugh. Her laugh is more contagious than the flu. I can’t remember the last time my stomach hurt and I just couldn’t stop laughing deep belly laughs…and then I realized I need to do this way more often. Afterwards my blood pressure was down and I wasn’t so worried about paying the bills and what to make for dinner. Everyone looked a little more attractive and I felt nicer. We all need to laugh more. It’s good for the soul.
3. Let’s be kids again. When was the last time you bought a toy for yourself to play with? Part of the reason we love Happy Chewbacca Mom is because she bought this mask for herself and no one else. We all need to play more. We all need to dress up and dance and play with dolls and jump on trampolines and run through sprinklers and wear masks for no reason at all. We all need to adult a little less and find our way back to our regressed, carefree selves. There is such unbelievable freedom to be found in that place.

I hope you watch Happy Chewbacca Mom over and over the way I did and take away your own lessons about happiness. Perhaps we over complicate what it means to be happy. Maybe happiness is really about these small moments, being our weird selves, cracking ourselves up, and living for the sheer joy of those experiences.

Let’s all do a little more of that, and make love and laughter viral the way Happy Chewbacca Mom did. We will all be better off for it. And maybe happiness really is that simple sometimes.

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