Hahaha

Humor is something that is familiar and common between everyone in this world. Humor exists in every language and way of life. When you think about it humor is a language in itself, it doesn't need words. The famous Charlie Chaplin or the more modern Mr. Bean didnt need words nor complex assistance or effects to make the world laugh. 

Most take humor to be happiness, which it undoubtedly is. 

But sometimes humor can be much much more than that; it's the search and want for happiness, at worst a cry for help. 

It's a way of finding happiness when one doesn't necessarily have any. 

And this humor is the type this goes unnoticed. 

For example, Sherman Alexie narrates many stories of his childhood or stories that represent his childhood with an occasional sarcastic and mocking tone. 

His continuous use of colloquial phrases and the constant back and forth of claim and mocking rebuttal he does takes the edge off what would otherwise be a serious and rather unpleasant anecdote. 

Throughout his piece he interjects informal mocking words like "shit" to propagate a sense of normality. Statements like "music turned my father into a reservation philosopher" and "I was born a goofy reservation mixed drink" are examples of his use of humor with a sarcastic undertone that could be meant to demean the importance of his story. 

I don't think he does this to deny or dismiss the seriousness of the issues and difficulties he faced growing up. Alexie uses humor as a coping mechanism to digest the reality of events; a way of not dwelling on something he is ashamed of. 

Although we'd all like to experience the positive sides of life there are always two sides to a coin. 

Dis(able)d

Disabled: the state of not being able to perform a natural task. 

How many times have you and I not been able to do something..."natural"? 

How about when you caught the flu that one winter; stuck on your bed with puffy eyes and a stuffy nose, not being able to talk without exhausting yourself and walk without getting dizzy within a few seconds? Technically, you were disabled, maybe not permanently but for the moment. 

One time I decided I wanted to give this exercise thing a shot (bahaha pretty sure we all know how that went). Being the highly intelligent individual that I was (still am) I just looked up fancy exercises and started doing them without stretching or anything like that. Walking up two flights of stairs the next day at school was like a root canal to the legs and ladies and gentlemen that is why I do not exercise. 

I was both physically and emotionally disabled for a few days after that.

Disability is something as common and as everyday as anything else. According to Mairs we are all in a sense "temporarily abled" (Mairs). Some of us are more disabled than others, some have disabilities for a few weeks and some for life. 

 The disabled are still whole, their disability is just one part of them. We are in no way different to each other in the way we think, yearn, feel and essentially live. And yet we are different in every way. And yet we are similar. 

Enable yourself to look beyond disability.