Any thread that elicits a smile or two or more is worth revisiting, so glad to see this one rebound and speak its magic. Humour, even when it's kept hidden, is not just in one's coping toolkit, but its function in everyday life helps soothe the absurdity of much of it.
Of course it can be misused. My antidote for veering off of that cliff is to steer clear of 'put-down' sorts of 'false' humour that feeds one's worst instincts. Same for sexual innuendo and the like.
I noticed this trait early, and was even lucky enough to have woven humour into my vocational life for a while; 'til the somber always serious sorts choked it off. Yet even then I was fortunate to just be content with putting the humour back into hiding its public side for a time.
Humour never fully undid the hurt and horror of lots of the pain, but having had it -- I have to say it was/is the saving grace of my life.
Of course it can be misused. My antidote for veering off of that cliff is to steer clear of 'put-down' sorts of 'false' humour that feeds one's worst instincts. Same for sexual innuendo and the like.
I noticed this trait early, and was even lucky enough to have woven humour into my vocational life for a while; 'til the somber always serious sorts choked it off. Yet even then I was fortunate to just be content with putting the humour back into hiding its public side for a time.
Humour never fully undid the hurt and horror of lots of the pain, but having had it -- I have to say it was/is the saving grace of my life.