For any situation to seem appealing, the humour quotient needs to be upped. That's the latest trend our generation follows. Humour invokes diverse types of emotions, one of which includes the mild irritation I feel towards the red squiggly lines appearing beneath it right now. I was taught this version of its spelling, and this is what I will use!
It seems to be a perfect formula to connect with people, be it the subtle humour at boardroom meetings or the loud shameless laughter sessions with friends and family. It attracts people's attention because a sense of humour is not something that everybody is blessed with. They focus their attention on you, you get your point across. Quite understandable in a professional scenario where the client needs to be glued to your words so that the product details fall on his otherwise-deaf ears.
Advertisements, these days, send you into a momentary trance where you feel secure investing in a product because it makes you laugh. You are misled, you buy the product and the actual state of the product makes you laugh again, this time for your stupidity. The joke for you, is now on you.
Each person has imaginary layers surrounding him, like walls, that block out any possible cause of an emotional outburst. It is hard to make a person cry and even harder to make him laugh. Hence, when something makes you laugh, you connect with it instantly. None of your sensitivity walls exist towards it anymore. You have reach the state of vulnerability.
On the home front, while conversing with a group of friends or family, people conjure up humourous stories about their lives (whether they actually occurred or not). Why? It gets the group to look at them and laugh along with them and makes them feel secure that they're loved in the society. At that instant, all seems well. In retrospect, you tend to lose respect for the person they're mocking in their stories and soon enough the mocker himself!
Instant connection vs. Losing Respect - the battle is just as indecisive as the working of a magnetic compass in the north pole !
Methods of connecting with people are quite time and generation variant and the strategy that works best for today's world is humour. But is it worth making a fool out of yourself, after not having spared anybody else? Or is it ethically acceptable to be vulnerable to something you witnessed for precisely 30 seconds?
Hmmm... Not so funny afterall, eh?
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