APAD：Laughter is the best medicine

The proverb means that 'laughter is the best way to recover'. The implication of this proverb is that 'laughter is better at curing us than other things (like pills)'. Medicine here means more generally a cure, or something that makes us feel better.

Origin: In The King James Version of the Bible, Proverbs 17: 22 says, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” This is the oldest version of the phrase (ca. 1611)
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I felt a bit down on Friday, but reading Lin Yutang (林语堂）"The scamp as Ideal" , a section of his book "The Importance of Living" on Saturday morning lifted my mood. (btw, 7997's reading was wonderful!!!)

Lin said: "I call no man wise until he has made the progress from the wisdom of knowledge to the wisdom of foolishness, and become a laughing philosopher, feeling first life's tragedy and then life's comedy. For we must weep before we can laugh. Out of sadness comes the awakening and out of the awakening comes the laughter of the philosopher, with kindliness and tolerance to boot.”

Alright, I did enough weeping on Friday. Now I can laugh a bit, especially at myself, thus this proverb and my post of "the jokes on 西岛". 

Happy (another) Sunday!

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• So Lin prescribed a scamp (or rascal) as a role model? -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 08:48:30

• 我以前以为Scamp只是贬义，Lin opened myEyes: 淘气包，playful, 逆反，有主见不盲从 ；-） -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 13:00:37

• Good to know. Thanks! -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 17:53:07

• 小时候就喜欢听相声。笑一笑，十年少。 -硅谷居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 10:23:13

• young or not, laughing is always better than crying :-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 13:02:29

• What a wonderful world！No weeping，only laughter！ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 13:05:19

• YesDoctor! ;-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/19/2024 postreply 13:09:36

• My favorite quotes -云霞姐姐- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/20/2024 postreply 08:38:46

• 握手！ -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/20/2024 postreply 09:14:52