We spend a lot of time sitting on the toilet! By age 21 you have sat on the toilet 12 hours a day for about two months! (If you are a woman, make it three months! Not that women take any longer than men in this call -- or rather, demand -- of nature, but they usually sit, where men may stand).
We spend endless hours each year doing mundane little things.
Who knows how many hours we use brushing our teeth, or for that matter, how many hours you spend picking your nose.
Most importantly, we spend a great deal of our lives at our jobs.
It's imperative then, that we find ourselves jobs that we will enjoy, while hopefully, being able to earn a suitable income.
No one likes to make mistakes, and wherever possible, will try to shift the blame to someone else.
(Dastardly beings we are sometimes.
) To help overcome this, it's good to try to develop the ability to laugh at yourself.
There's the story of the girl whose brother used to tease her.
He got a great opportunity one day when she came home from school early and, with no one at home to let her in, decided to climb up and crawl in through the small toilet window.
She managed to crawl in, head-first, through the high window, but lost her grip and would have fallen, had she not been caught by her panties on a hook in the window.
Unable to free herself, she had to hang there until her brother (and a school friend), came home and finally decided to help her down -- but only after they had first enjoyed her predicament to the full.
Then there was the student, an extremely shy young man before taking our course, who told us how he had been trying to get a date with a particularly lovely young lady, for several months.
After taking a strong laxative one morning, he received a call from the young lady, who arranged to meet him down town.
The absolute excitement of finally getting a date with the girl of his dreams, completely erased from his mind, the fact that he had just taken a laxative.
It hit him just after he got out of the bus.
Even though some of the strongest muscles in the human body are located at that "southern exit," he doubted they would be any match for the powerful laxative he had taken, and so, rushing up the stairs of one of the nearby buildings as fast as his legs would take him, unbuttoning trousers as he ran, he rushed like a bolt (Usain Bolt), into the first men's room he could find.
Struggling to open the cubicle door and finding it stuck, he could no longer restrain himself, and PPPPUUUTTTT!! down came everything right there on the floor outside the toilet door! Then, to his utter horror...
he heard the toilet flush and the door opening! In a flash, he was out of there, down the stairs and out into the street.
Naturally, he had to forget all about his date, and now had to endure continuous "offensive odor" remarks and looks of disgust, all the way home on the bus! But to this day, he still wonders -- if the man stepped in it.
We really shouldn't be afraid to laugh at ourselves -- it can actually be quite therapeutic.
Remember the encouraging quotation: "...
Before honor is humility!".
Can you laugh at yourself? Try it, you'll like it, and others will like you more too.