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When Pain Becomes Funny
A little birthday reflection from me, via Annie Ernaux (a French author and Nobel Laureate I’m embarrassed to say I have not read, but this quote is perfect):
Pain cannot be kept intact, it needs to be “processed,” converted into humor.
Parts of life sucks. But at its worst, it’s a funny story in the making.
41 years on, and I’ve got some howlers.
Thanks for reading – raise a glass in my general direction and convert some old pain into humor.
Ps. as the poetic philosophers Minor Threat once opined:
I want to tell you a little story
‘Cause it makes me warm inside
It’s about some friends growing up
And all the things they tried
I’m not talking about staple shit
They went for something more
I guess it was too much dreaming
Too much to hope for
One day something funny happened
But it scared the shit out of me
Their heads went in different directions
And their friendship ceased to be
I’m telling you I want it to work
I don’t like being hurt
Something’s not right inside
And I can’t always put it aside
What can we do, what can we do?
TRY