Laughter is the best medicine. When I saw this title on the Reader’s
Digest, it attracted me at once. It is a fact that I have lived with laughter since
I was a child. Whenever, we brothers and sisters used to cry, it became routine
that one of us used to crack a joke. In 9 out of 10 instances, the crying child
used to join in the laughter that erupted. In the playing ground also, we used
to get hurt. Somebody among us used the same medicine of cracking a joke to
bring back smile in a crying face. When I became young, this shameless laughter
used to mitigate our miseries for a while. Even a tragedy such as love lost
ended with a Charlie Chaplin style recoup. Have you ever slipped on a busy street?
People laughing all around forced you to smile back and you proceeded ahead in
no time. I remember of a feature film in which a cancer patient on the
operation table laughing hilariously from tingling of the fingers of a nurse
who was preparing him by sponging his abdomen which needed surgery. He was
cured of all his miseries. He died laughing. Have you noticed smile on a person
getting relieved of all his pains, agony and misery once he dies ?
