A Guy Pretends to Trip Over an Invisible Dog and Laughs Loudly[I am holding my two year old daughter]“Why he did that, daddy?” “Because he was joking.” “Why he was joking?” “Because it’s fun to joke.” “Why it’s-” “Because it feels good and we like to feel good.” “Why we like to feel that?” “Because life is suffering and we’re dumped into a world that is enormous and painful and infinitely complex and we are mostly powerless to affect things in a big and meaningful way and as we stare into the void of death that is ever closer we feel so small and so helpless like a little flailing fish lying on a cold, dry kitchen floor and so we find little ways to be funny to force a feeling of comfort to overtake our anxiety by reminding us that ultimately nothing really matters unless we let it matter, so we can decide what we want to really matter to us most, and see those things, really see them, and hold them really close, feel their warmth and use our warmth to keep them warm back.”[pats me on the back and hugs me]“Okay daddy.”[beat]“But why?” via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2Hg2WXZ
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