So I’m at work the other day, talking to one of my coworkers.  We’re just shootin the breeze, talkin about this and that.  We then get to talking about my girlfriend.  The conversation went like this…

“So, you still open doors for her?”

“Yeah, still at that stage.”

“She should be opening doors for you.”

“I know, right!”

“You just gotta train her.”

“Yeah, I’ll slap her with my Chris Brown hand.”

Silence.

“What, too soon?”

Regardless of how the conversation continued after that (they finally laughed and gave me a pound, acknowledging the dark but timely joke), the question lingered in my mind.  How soon is too soon?  When does it become alright to joke about a horrible situation?  Don’t get me wrong…what happened with Chris Brown and Rihanna is awful (and seriously, someone talk to the girl about not getting back with him), and I think the man should be in jail.  But I have, and always have had, a dark and “don’t-and-shouldn’t-go-there” sense of humor. 

Unless the person the tragedy happened to is standing right in front of you, and they don’t have a sense of humor, in my mind there is no “too soon”.  I can’t help it.  My mind just works that way…I make a joke out of everything.  I make jokes at other people’s good fortune, misfortune, lack of fortune, and everything in between.  I make jokes at funerals.  I found videos of the tsunami humorous.  Steve Irwin…need I say more? And who doesn’t like to watch people getting hurt on YouTube.  Kick to the crotch?  Awesome!  Fall from a roof…even better!  Getting attacked by a bear?  Over the top!

I just think life is WAY too short to take things too seriously.  Sure, some of the things I joke at are tragic situations.  But tragedy happens every day, all around us.  You can’t spend your entire life dwelling on the darkness out there in the world.  All you can do is try to find humor in it all, focus on the positive, and keep your head up.  Someone once said “Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”  I couldn’t agree more.  So do your best to find humor in every situation…it will make life much more enjoyable.