the joy that life brings to its fullest. Lincoln knew that he had aligned to the prototype leadership style where the president always had to be looking serious and laughing would be a sign of un-seriousness and immaturity.
The ideology in Abraham Lincoln’s time is still the same in our time. People feel that when they do laugh, it is a sign of mediocrity. This is not true. Parents find it difficult having a laughing time with their wards. Their children also find it difficult interacting with their parents, thus the family is made to be in the semblance of a quiet graveyard.
You would hear parents say, “what makes you laugh? Get over to your schoolwork. You had better be serious.” They fail to create the joyful atmosphere in the home needed for the sound development of the mind.
Teachers at school are of the opinion that they have to be overly stern with the students, harsh and tough to get the students respect. They thus create an atmosphere of fear rather than the respect they had desired. The class atmosphere becomes rigid and lacking in creativity. The students feel constrained to express their true self and be themselves.
Teachers should have a friendly disposition. Learning should be fun. An atmosphere of joy, and laughter should characterize the environment. Teachers must strive to ensure while they teach, they watch out for facial changes in their students and motivate them with words that will lift their spirit.
There are secrets in quiet laughter. While we should laugh and enjoy the fun that laughing brings, we also must not over laugh. You do not have to laugh to the extent where you are been compared to a lunatic. Lunatics give weird laughs when they do laugh. Understand that the beauty in laughing is laughing quietly. We are not to rage and hit people while we laugh. If we laugh this way, we lose our pedigree.
We do not laugh about everything. Not everything is amusing. You should know when situations demand laughter. You should not be laughing when the people around you are down casted because of an event that had occurred. You should also share in their grief and pains.
Life often could be so challenging sometimes that you find yourself often under the trench because you are answerable to one boss or the other. You keep a tight face all the time thus pushing people away from you.
However tough it has being, you can ease yourself from these worries and thoughts by laughing out the strains. When you laugh, you remove the strains of worry and ease yourself of all the thoughts that had decapitated you.
Comedy shows are a good place to wind off after a busy week. Parents should develop the habit of taking their wards to such shows with them where they can ease themselves as well. An atmosphere of family communication should be encouraged where everyone feels free to say how he feels and what he feels.
Teachers have to build confidence in their wards and improve the relationship between them and their students by often smiling and encouraging their wards to smile too. Students should learn the positive health implications of laughing, and its mind developing capacity.
Teachers do have to watch the students and understand how sometimes they may feel. They should help them know that if they do laugh; they can ease themselves from those worries and paint a better picture of life.
Laugh, it is the only medicine for your soul.