How Kamala Harris Made Me Want To Laugh More
How often is it that someone needs a world-class politician to make them want to laugh more anyway? If you happen to know me at all, I am not someone who laughs, or for that matter, even smiles too often.
Reason for not smiling could be simply that I’m just not an outwardly welcoming person or a people pleaser who you’ll always find happy. I personally never bothered myself so much when it came to smiling but I often wondered why are there so little things that actually make me laugh! I had no idea. Still don’t.
Not that I don’t laugh at all. It’s just that not a lot of people or things can actually make me laugh out loud. Maybe I just have a different sense of humour. I could claim that I like smart and witty standups, etc., but I also burst out laughing at completely random, subtlest expression/body language/giggle/dialogue that I find funny. So there’s no boundary as such.
Standups, movies/shows, prank videos, banter with friends, hardly anything ever cracks me up. And I never made a deal out of it until I saw videos of VPOTUS, Kamal Harris while she was campaigning and pretty much all over the internet. And what a woman!
Her charismatic persona, confidence, and the leadership were unmissable no doubt, but the fact that she is such an innately happy person (from my perspective) who loved to laugh completely shook me. I could not not notice how she would find something to laugh, and laugh out loud about, in any environment she was a part of. And if you haven’t heard it yet, she has one of those contagious laughs, which always seemed to lift the energy of the room she’s in somehow.
I have seen people laugh before, I mean obviously, right? People also tend to learn how to fake laugh. To me, that is definitely a smart social skill but in honesty, why would anyone do that? Take for example, and I have nothing but respect for her, but Priyanka Chopra’s laughter seem so fake. It seems as if she has the ability to laugh at jokes she doesn’t understand or even find funny. She has one of the prettiest smiles but not a believable laughter.
Whereas Harris always seems so naturally joyful that her laughter weighs in so much in her exuberant personality. I just love this video of her dancing with kids because it displays she’s such a fun-loving person who’d rather do something silly and constantly laugh while at it then bear a fake smile and just finish her job.
How does she or anyone find humour in a casual conversation is an alien concept to me but seeing a world leader and a politician like herself practice that on a daily basis made me rethink that life is not just about finding meaning, contemplating, and ultimately being sad over the fact that we’re all going to die one day, to find humour in small things and have yourself a little laugh won’t hurt anybody.
It is as much about how I perceived her personality based on her good-humoured attitude as it is about how she genuinely inspired me to laugh more and be a slightly happier person than I am. And trust me, I am not the one to say someone has inspired me to be a happier person because I am basically unaware of the whole concept of happiness. But Kamala Harris changed that for me at a justifiably superficial level and I’m happy with that.
I wouldn’t say I make constant effort to laugh more and be slightly funnier but it is quite a process to want to be someone like that without compromising your own style and sense of humour. But I would definitely say that not laughing is not equivalent to be being sad! Mostly it just means you have an elite sense of humour and can’t be easily pleased (added unnecessary self-gratifying humour. Get it?).
I would always prefer the readers to have their own takes on and takeaways from my articles but for anyone reading this all I can say is being “happy” might not bring you good laughs but laughing will most definitely bring you happiness.
Go have yourself a good ol’ belly laugh and lift ‘em spirits!
