By Jim Hagarty
Humour might seem to be my talent. I suppose it is.
But to me, it is my medication.
You might think I am funny because I am unserious. The truth is, I am funny because I am too serious.
Humour is my only hope.
We see someone laughing and we think, “Now there is a happy man.” He might be happy. But it is important to remember that they don’t let you out of the nuthouse till you stop laughing.
Have you ever seen a dictator laugh? They can’t laugh. They have no sense of humour. It is their most major character flaw. Unable to laugh, they are incapable of achieving perspectve. Without perspective, a man is living in a dream world.
The Irish have no special claim to suffering. But the Irish have suffered. And yet, they laugh. At others, sometimes, but usually at themselves and each other.
Two things keep me going in this world: humour and music.
It might not mean I am always happy when I am laughing, but at least at those times I am not crying.
I have done my share of that.
When I can find humour in a situation, I know that I have finally accepted it.
It is acceptance of the twists and turns in life that is my true medication.
Situations have lost their power to hurt me when I have accepted them.
Acceptance and perspective.
Humour and music.
And love.
