– Hunter S. Thompson
I think we have a tendency to associate seriousness with wisdom, but in my experience, a fine sense of humor is a far greater indication that someone has lived a lot of hard lessons, and learned that most of the stuff we worry about is just plain silly. When I think of the people I know who laugh the most, they are not the people who have had the easiest lives – just the opposite. As a firefighter, my husband has had to respond to thousands of serious emergencies in his life, and he is the first one to laugh at the stuff most of us worry about. Maybe things will go smoothly, and maybe they won’t. Either way, nearly everything we worry about will turn out fine in the end, so we might as well find a way to smile and enjoy it all.