I like to mock.
Most things are mockable. There are a few exceptions. I don't want to bring you down by listing the exceptions. I bet you can guess some of the taboo mocking topics.
People can be so serious.
LIGHTEN UP.
Just because I mock does not mean I do not care. Occupy Wall Street was a very exciting and important political movement. And yet, it is easy pickings for mocking.
I once saw a great motivational speaker named Sandy Queen, whose main message was "lighten up!"
Read about her in the Winona State University Student Newspaper.
There's also a good You Tube Video if you need some laughs: Sandy Queen at Cornell.
I tried out some of Sandy's comedy routine to my captive audiences (IE my classes) back in the 1990s and early 2000s. One part of her speech stuck in my head. It was what people said to her when she told them to lighten up and how she responded:
"You don’t understand what you’re asking. If you had my husband, my wife, my kids, my job, my supervisor, you wouldn’t ask me to be a well person. I am under such stress. Please remember one thing. The first and only day in your life that you’re going to be stress free is the day they look at you and say, my my, doesn’t she look natural. That will be the very first day in your life that you are stress free. Now if that’s true, we need to start treating stress as our slave and not as our master."
So, really. Lighten up.
Now, join me in linking arms and singing "Kumbaya." You'll feel better. I promise.
- chris tower 1304.04 9:48
Photo courtesy of Liesel MK Tower
