Steemit Engagement Challenge S5-W1 | Laughter is The Best Medicine

Greetings dear friends of the Steem for BetterLife community. It is a privilege for me to participate in this week’s challenge in this amazing community. Laughter to me is medicine we do not need to buy from the market. It is a gift and also we as humans cannot exist without laughing.

In this challenge, I will be talking about the reasons laughing is a therapy for our healthy life. I will equally be talking about some incidents that provoked me to laugh and wipe out tears.

Laughter from my understanding is a manifestation of a joyful moment or amusement by an incident that provokes an individual to laugh. As I earlier said, human beings cannot exist without laughter because that is the primary objective of our existence. Laughter is one of the best medicine to keep us healthy. The reasons why I consider laughter the best medicine are as follows:

• Best stress reliever: Whenever I feel stressed, a little humor from either my kids or friends triggers me to laugh and forget about the things stressing me up.
• Relaxes my muscle: That moment you suffering from nerves with stiff muscles, a healthy way to go about it is to laugh and relax the muscles.
• Laughter makes me forget about bad or sad moments and brings new memories.
• It protects my heart from malfunctioning. When you laugh, it makes it possible for your blood vessels to function well, and blood flow improves and protects your heart from cardiovascular diseases.
• It makes me live longer. Ooh yes, take a good look at someone who always frowns and kills a lot of brain cells, always sick. But the laughter of course which is free makes you live longer and free from certain illnesses.

Some incidents made me laugh so much that I had to hold my stomach or wipe my tears.

Several moments made me laugh and wipe out tears. Most of these moments were with my kids. There are times due to my commitments with work that I come back home like a drunk 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️. At times when I am in such mode, my kids always have a way to make me laugh and forget about what was stressing me up.

One day when I was back from work, so tired and my daughter said “…mom why are you looking like someone was chasing you…and started laughing”. As if that was not enough, she took my phone and asked me to pose and let her take a selfie so I will see exactly how I look at that moment.

As she was doing that my son thought it was a fun family moment and also join to be part of the picture. We both laughed until I forgot about what was stressing me up. We ended up that day playing with the camera😅😄. It was a great stress reliever for me that day.

Another moment also with my kids that made me laugh until had to wipe out tears was at my daughter’s school. I came late to pick her up at the end-of-term ceremony. I had a stressful day at the bank trying to rectify some issues with the bank. When I came to her school, she had already taken her report cards, and when I asked her to pose for a picture for work well-done.

She said that “…mom you did not put my lunch pack and so you need to take me to Mr. Baker and buy me ice cream and strawberry shortcake”. I started laughing because during the ceremony we usually give feeding money to the school for that day. She frowned in the picture because I was laughing and she keeps reminding me that what she said was not funny 😆.

The last moment of laughter was with my son. Oooh my goodness, this dude has some moments when he acts strange. For instance, when he is in the mode to go outing and you delaying is a problem. One day as we were about going outing, I asked him to pose for a selfie. He puts on a funny face that provoked me to laugh because I knew that was a signal that I am wasting time 😆😅😄.

In conclusion, laughter to me is the main reason for our existence. To live a happy life, smile or laugh often to stay healthy. It is a gift and we do not need to buy it to stay healthy. So why not laugh rather than frowning 😾. I will use this medium to invite @wase1234, @mehakbhatti, and @steem-for-future to share with us those laughing moments in their life.