Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-sixty-five of Operation Achieve Anything. This is probably going to be a quick one because the Achieve Anything… book’s returned focus on lessons about laughter is really starting to get me feeling down. For one, the book already dredged up enough sad thoughts about my former favorite past-time during the last laughter-themed set of lesson from just a couple of months ago.

As I said back then, as well as over the past couple of days, I fully understand the concepts behind these laughter lessons and can see the benefits up to a point but as someone who has used laughter as a medicine to the point where I overdosed, I no longer see my humor as the cure-all that I once saw it to be. As I pointed yesterday, this laughter is the best medicine follows the same medical trends where it only gives temporary relief to a symptom but comes nowhere close to being a cure.

I’ve spent an entire life laughing everything off, including my suicidal tendencies that felt stronger when I was a fun guy feeling constant pressure to be entertaining as a way to share my “meds.” For all of the people who love to share how important laughter is in life as a magical cure, just look at Robin Williams or any other comedian who build lives out of laughter yet have very dark souls.

Maybe it’s different for those who do more partaking of the laughter than creating it because I do find that when I’m all by myself and watching funny content, I do feel a lot more joy. Don’t get me wrong, I still do look back at the fun days fondly but I also look back at these days an example of how buried negative emotions will always grow and sometimes it’s the distractions that give these emotions the nutrition they need to grow.

So, that’s what I have to say on the laughter is the best medicine lesson now let's move on to the task for today where I’m supposed to journal about the type of friend I am and whether or not I do enough to be a better friend with the advice of trying laughter as a tool to draw people closer together. Again, this is another one that’s hard to take, especially since I feel that my humor really did draw people and left me a shell of a person.

Oh well, we’ll see what more misery I can share about laughter when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until then, it’s now time to wrap this up with my usual sign of and say, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.  

Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.