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RATING YOUR LAUGHTER LEVEL
How much laughter dose do you take every day? How much time do you spend laughing every day? Can one measure how much time he spends laughing? You may presume that this is difficult a task especially as we don’t take our time to measure or there are no yardsticks we can use to measure the quality and quantity of laughter that evolves from them. We tend to define people by how much of smiles or laughter that is evoked from their faces. We often say that person is always moody, always happy, always ecstatic, always sad or any other language just to describe how we view the persons in relation to how he should laugh.
Everyone expects every other person to laugh as often as or be happy always. That’s a natural want. It’s just that this fails to happen in real life.
How do you go about measuring how much laughter you give off every day? Knowing the amount of laughter will help you make adjustments and give yourself more of it and help you find reason to get more of it.
Ask others what impression they have about you. We tend to always have a good notion of ourselves however bad the ratings of others. We have being taught that what others say or how they feel about who we are is inconsequential on how we lead our lives so we often don’t mind what others say. You will have to rethink again. Others have a better perspective of your external attributes. They may not have a sense of what’s inside you but they see what’s around you and they are in good stead to comment about the things they see.
Don’t feel shy asking. Feel free to open up to the closest persons around you and ask for sincerity in what they tell you about how they feel about you.
Answer the following questions or let someone help you by personalizing the questions
Do you love seeing others laugh? Yes/No
Do you think others are morons or insane because they laugh? Yes/No
Do you love to make others happy and laughing? Yes/No
Do people say that you make them happy and laughing when they are around you? Yes/No
Do you struggle to laugh when others are laughing? Yes/No
Do you like people who laugh often? Yes/No
Are you always interested in programs that stimulate you to laugh? Yes/No
If you’ve answered the questions correctly, you may have a clue how much of laughter you have in that head of yours.
The higher your number of “yes”, the higher your laughter index.
if you score one “yes”, its one over seven
the total number of yes over seven gives you your score.
7 laughter freak
6 laughs often
5 laughs once in a while
4 neutral
3 sometimes unhappy
2 usually unhappy
1 sad
0 very sad.
By now you can grade where you stand. If you deserve to laugh, you deserve to laugh.
YES YOU DESERVE TO LAUGH
If you check the laughter grading system developed in the previous chapter, by now you know where you stand. Everyone deserves to laugh even if it means just a few minutes every day. Already you’ve seen the immense benefits of laughter. If you are on the lower side of the scale, you know you will have to do more to cause you to laugh.
It is amazing to note that a majority of persons around us have a laughing index that fall below 3. In some cultures, laughter is reserved for uncultured persons. These persons find nothing musing no matter how much one tries to propel that side of them. These persons are those we refer to as sadists. You don’t want to live like this. Life is fun and you must enjoy the fun that arrives with living life