A Conversation Overheard :: Dialogue Conversation Essays

A Conversation OverheardLaughing and crying. Like salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, they go together. Yeah, they do. Think about it. People laugh until they cry, some race laugh through their tears. And, after you finish either process, you usually feel matterter, am I right? Also, both laughing and crying are indispensable to survival in life. No one can successfully thrive and function without doing either of these things, laughing and crying. All that emotion kept inside, with no mode of escape? Imagine a person who doesnt laugh or cry as a bottle of soda. Shake that person/bottle up and down, shake, shake, shake. Whatll come to pass? Pressure will be building up every time the bottle is shaken and the person holds in laughter or tears. Now, let go of this person/bottle, who has non vented these essential emotions. Whatll happen now? The soda sprays everywhere, and the person probably goes nutty. Chances are, either way youd end up ruining the clothing of the person next to you. Get it? I dont know the exact physical ramification of not laughing or crying, but I just bet you its something like I just described. You wanna make a bet? Lets talk some more about this laughter/crying thing. Its pretty interesting, dont you think? How theyre, like, 2 parts of a whole or two separate entities? Blows my mind. Im racking my brain (how exactly is that done?) to think of the last time I laughed. Im not talking like getting the giggles and whatnot. No, no, Im talking pure, unabashed hilarity. The knee-slapping-stomach-hurting-laugh-till-you-wanna-hurl kind. Ive got that short term memory loss thing, so my last personal episode escapes me, but I know theres been dozens of occasions where Ive personally gone nutty (even without anyone shaking me). But, I find it hard to imagine that anyone hasnt had these fits. Even the most dry, seemingly unhumorous people have had episodes in their otherwise mundane existences where they werent in complete possession of their faculties. Just thinking about it is enough to produce a laugh loudly or two. Okay, picture someone as obscenely serious as a Buckingham Palace guard going off over a one-third Stooges movies. Isnt that a riot? Though, seriously I doubt that his taste would run in the vein of three goofy-looking guys poking each other in they eyeball and saying, Soitinly. If you wanna know the truth, I personally find the Stooges boring with a capital b.