Re: "In Search of Spirituality"

From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:36:12 GMT

"Rob Duncan" <robduncan@gbronline.com> wrote in
news:n7-dnZHFaK6QkWLd4p2dnA@gbronline.com:

> I dont think adults care if people laugh at them. But kids certainly
> do. It impacts their self esteem for some reason.

I always liked getting people riled up and laughing, even as a kid, did
it make them take me less seriously at other times, sure, I was the class
clown.

  One of the biggest
> laughing fits I ever had was when I was walking to my car when it was
> icy out at college. There were a bunch of girls hanging out their
> dormroom windows talking and chatting to people. They yelled "HI!" I
> had my hands in my pockets. When I struggled to get my hands out of
> my pockets to wave I slipped on the ice, I still couldnt get my hands
> out, I landed flat assed on my back, and then slid about 15 down a
> hill into a puddle of icy water. LOL. I was laughing so hard I
> couldnt catch my breath.
>
> As an adult I laughed along with all of the girls in the dorm who saw
> me. (Which seemed like all of them at the time, LOL) But if I was 13
> or 14 I bet it would have made an impact on my overall self esteem.

I was about 10 and went jogging around the track at the school during PE,
my jogging pants fell off cause I didn't tie the string tightly enough,
everyone got a good laugh , me too, I liked making people laugh, but
years later people still laughed about it and it just wasn't funny to me
anymore for the 500th time - hehe. I went to my HS class reunion and
everyone had all these fancy degrees and big paying jobs and asked me
what I did with my life, I had worked a lot of big jobs and had big
money, but I dressed like a bumb and came in heavy with the breath of a
sinner and told them all I was just a bumb and didnt want to do anything
but sit around and drink another beer - that I was living the life of my
heroes - bob and doug mckenzie eh - some were very disturbed by this -
tried to give me money - I said MORE BEER not money - but most got a good
laugh from it - later that night at the dance club I tried to get with
some of the old HS chicks - it was very obvious that because they didnt
think I was rich or powerful - that I wasnt gonna get in the panties that
night. Years later I would say the consensus of my 430 graduating peers
is that even the class clowns became very formal and disciplinarian, not
many of my old buds laugh much anymore and they almost seem resentful of
people that do and can remain happy :(

> Instead of seeing it as the hillarious event that it was, I may have
> felt like I made a fool out of myself. Maturity is what makes it one
> of my fondest memories. It was hillarious.

Haha! Maturity does not mean you stop making a fool out of yourself and
laughing and only live in the good ole days through memory right?

My peers can't laugh anymore, scary movie and jon stewart used to really
entertain these people, they think they were ignorant to laugh at that
now. 

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shameful type towards the end of last year, contortions and 
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