Laugh at Anything You can

Happy National Chocolate Mint Day!

I had two of my three daughters, Jacki and Lauren, with me in Nashville for the weekend. Jacki drove from St. Louis with her girlfriend, Karen, who happened to have a birthday while she was here. Lauren lives in Tennessee, about 30 minutes from where I live.
Sometimes life get so busy and we forget to laugh and have fun. And then we get together with the people that bring out the giggles in us and we remember how good it feels.
And this was one of these times.
We headed to downtown Nashville on Saturday night to enjoy some of the amazing music the city offers. For those who have not experienced this city I encourage you to make this a priority.
The talent in the city is incredible, but along with the tunes comes the spirit of fun and enjoying life: the laughter, the sunging, the dancing, the feeling of enjoying life when the world is struggling.
We walked along Broadway – the main street in Nashville that visitors frequent – and walked into the places that had loud, fun music blaring through the open doors. As soon as we walked into the establishments of music and celebration our feet started moving, heads started bobbing and it was not long before we were on the dance floor. The dance floor being anywhere we could move our body between the tables. We felt alive and were ready to enjoy that fact!
As we neared Paradise Park – a replica of a trailer park, complete with plastic chairs and old tires lying around - we looked in the open windows to check out the activity when some guys invited us in – through the big, low open windows. Without thinking Jacki, Karen and Lauren grabbed their hands and crawled in through the open cavity in the wall. It was only a few seconds before the bouncer, a has-been from his WWF days - ran over to escort them to the front door to have their ID’s checked.
“We do have doors, you know. That’s what they are for!”
After that the laughter continued for the remainder of the night. This was not a catastrophe but a story to be told and retold, always culminating in bales of laughter.
People come to Nashville for the music and stay for the fun and the laughter.
The dancing continued, the giggling never stopped and a good time was had by all.
Nashville, Los Angeles, Olive Branch, Wheaton, Elgin…wherever you live is the place to chuckle and have fun. Don’t wait until you get older, make more money, have nicer clothes or less stress. That day will never come. There will always be something more to strive for.
Make a conscious decision today that you are going to laugh at everything you can today. Laugh at the little things. Laugh at mishaps. Just laugh.
And watch the whole world laugh with you!