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Idiom: Laughter is the best medicine
Bear with me here.
Take two of your fingers and put one in each corner of your mouth.
Have you done it?
Good.
Now, push up.
No, higher than that.
Good.
What do you have?
That’s right, you have smiled for the first time today!
They say women love men who can make them laugh.
I made you smile, so does that mean you’re falling for me?
The idiom laughter is the best medicine means that smiling and laughing are directly connected to good health.
No matter how bad things become, we must make an effort to laugh at them.
Sometimes, laughter is all we have.
Those who have made it through tough times will often say we have to look on the bright side.
If we allow outside influences to affect the way we feel on the inside, we’d never get out of bed in the morning.
Laughter is like COVID – highly contagious.
It’s the good kind of contagious, though.
Laughter helps to bring people together.
Smile, and (half) the world smiles with you, frown, and you frown alone.
Even if you don’t know what they are laughing at, watching someone laugh will make you smile.
When we smile, our bodies release all kinds of feel-good chemicals that, well, make us feel good.
Combine that with alcohol, and you have a party!
Laughter also erases a lot of tension and negative energy.
Laughter is the best medicine.
This is energy that we could have used to be angry or upset.
Perhaps that’s why women love men who can make them smile.
Subconsciously, they know they’ll be healthy and happy with guys like that.
It could be true.
Grumpy older men are often alone.
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