Nothing, nothing, compares to watching people really lose their shit laughing. Not polite chuckling. I’m talking about that deep, uncontrollable, tears-streaming-down-your-face kind of laughter that makes you forget every goddamn thing that’s wrong with the world.
There’s this moment, right? When someone’s guard drops completely. Their face contorts, their shoulders shake, and they make sounds that are borderline inhuman. It’s pure. It’s honest. It’s the most real thing humans do besides crying, and infinitely better to witness.
The best part? It’s contagious as hell. One person cracks, then another, and suddenly everyone’s gone. You don’t even remember what was funny five minutes later. Doesn’t matter. What matters is that for those few seconds or minutes, nobody’s pretending. Nobody’s performing. Nobody’s thinking about their job or their problems or what they look like.
You just are. Together. Connected by something as simple and profound as joy.
That’s the stuff. That’s what makes being human worth it. Those moments when someone laughs so hard they can’t breathe, and you’re right there with them, drowning in the same beautiful absurdity.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.3