Keep Laughing While You Still Have Teeth

Ketawa itu nular.

Coba sekarang kalian ketawa. Temen sebelah kalian pasti tanya ‘Ngapain sih ketawa?’ Ga usa dijawab deh. Meskipun gatau apa sebenernya yang lucu, lama kelamaan temen kalian pasti akan ikut ketawa.

‘Aku gatau apa yang lucu, tapi liat dia ketawa aku jadi ikut ketawa’ – pasti pernah denger kalimat ini deh.

Ga cuma ketawa aja tapi bahagia dan sedih juga nular lho. Kalo pengen merasakan lingkungan yang bahagia, mulai dari diri sendiri kayanya paling pas. Kalo kamu sendiri ga bahagia, gimana mau bikin orang lain bahagia? Gimana mau liat yang baik-baik? Karena waktu suasana hati sedang buruk, yang baik bisa jadi jelek, mau orang ngapain aja kadang ga bisa memperbaiki apa-apa kecuali kita sendiri yang memutuskan untuk berdamai dengan keadaan yang membuat suasana hati kita buruk.

Ketika merasa sekeliling kita suram dan nggak bahagia, coba ambil kaca, liat diri kita, apa kita sendiri sudah bahagia? Mulai dari kita dan berbalik ke kita. Karena menggantungkan kebahagiaan pada orang lain, efeknya hanya sesaat.

Pasti setelah baca tulisan ini langsung ada yang mikir ‘itu lagi kan, semua-semua juga intinya balik ke kita sendiri, sama aja’

Iya, memang!


Laughing is contagious.

Now, try to laugh. Your friend will ask ‘What are you laughing at?’ Don’t answer it, continue your laugh. Eventhough they don’t know the reason you laugh, sooner or later they will start to laugh too.

‘I don’t know what is so funny, but when I see him laughing, I start laughing too’ – you must have heard this sentence.

Not only laugh that is contagious, happiness and sadness are also contagious. If you want to feel a happy environment, starting from yourself seems the most fitting. If you are not happy, how can you make others happy? How can you see good things? Because when you are in a bad mood, anything good can be bad. Whatever others do to comfort you just can’t make it better sometimes. Unless we make peace with the circumstances that makes our mood bad.

If you feel your surrounding is gloomy and seems not happy, try to grab a mirror, see yourself in it, are you happy? Start from us and turned back to us. Because depending our happiness on others, the effect is only temporary.

After reading this, there must be someone thinking ‘That again, the essence of everything is again back to us, no difference’

Yes, it is!

Love,

J

 

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