Steemit Engagement Challenge S5-W1: Laughter is The Best Medicine

It's a pleasure participating in the contest organized by the community in the ongoing Steemit engagement challenge. I found this piece about laughing quite practical with a strong relationship to our daily lives. Let's roll!

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Laughter in own words can be referred to as an action that is triggered by inner pleasant emotions or things seen around (watched via the television/mobile phone/computer), listened to while in a gathering, and so on. It often involves a quick opening of the mouth (maybe slightly with the teeth displayed), making sounds, and a change in facial expression that reveals pleasant feelings.

Laughter can be an event that happens quite rapidly depending on the situation, you don't wanna do it but it happened and that depends on how intense the event that triggers it was.

Laughter is an expression of the feeling of happiness or joyfulness or a funny event left on you and in some cases, you fight to stop it which is not always very easy to do. Let me give you a quick example, I was in a tutorial class one day (after my secondary education) when a student offended the teacher, the event was about using a foul word on the teacher.

The teacher was pained (though he is a jovial person) and we can see that it hits differently this time as he was trying to correct the student, in the process, another student burst into laughter which I believed it's not intentional but he couldn't control it, having found the event funny or amazed that the jovial teacher could be strict in warning the offender.

As a person, I laugh so much when I find an event funny or involved in some discussions that remind us about the certain lifestyle we have lived even though I find it hard to smile when taking pictures, lol. One of the ways I smile while taking pictures is by reminiscing on some past pleasing events which would help me unleash a beautiful smile.

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There are various benefits attached to laughter and for several of them, we can assume that laughter is the best medicine. Let's see some below as established by personal experience and research.

• Some research shows that laughter strengthens hormones and it's good for the heart.

• Laughter helps to suppress the effect of stress, you can imagine gaining more strength after laughing, and you were exhausted earlier.

• It lightens one's mood.

• It takes away sadness, it has happened to me many times, and the moment of laughter deadens the burdens of the heart. Well, it may return after a while but laughter does work to suppress it.

It's time to pick a side out of the two questions given in the contest. Most definitely, I have chosen to roll with the first question which would be explained in the section below.

Several events had me hold my stomach before, talking about watching comedy movies or skits but these ain't quite solid for me. Let's talk about real events and it's about football sessions back then in my village, in the deep of the rainy season, there are many dramas we experience which are quite funny.

As a lover of football, I play the game almost every day when I'm home (in the village) even till now, my visits have always been a pleasure for me to play good football with an abundance of playing grounds unlike where I reside at the moment. These games are not necessarily official ones played in competitions, they are mostly football sessions with selections to play against each other and count scores.

In the deep of the rainy season, most of our pitches are often filled with water which makes it slippery especially on a day when it has just rained or was raining while playing the game. While playing when it's raining, the slippery pitch makes the players fall without control and you would think such players' hands or legs are broken with the sound their bodies made with the impact on the ground.

Nothing would happen to them and note this is just a playful session, other players and the victim would laugh tirelessly, in fact, we would neglect the ball for some time and continue laughing. What about the struggle of the player chasing the ball and avoiding a free fall? 😆 All these amount to joyful moments while we wait for another person's turn to fall so we can analyse how he had fallen.

This is one of the ways I have enjoyed genuine laughter, the laughter ease off our stresses, and remember it's raining as such we hardly felt any tiredness. On several occasions during these events, I have laughed so hard and held my stomach feeling the impact of the laughter on me. Football sessions generally have been associated with this kind of effect but it's more intense on a slippery pitch.

In conclusion, laughter is the best medicine, there's no doubt about that. It doesn't have a monetary tag, it's free and can be achieved in several ways, while engaging in your hobbies, watching your favorite comedy series, sharing throwback stories with friends, and so on.

It has practically eased stress off me many times which I believed it has also helped others in various ways. I will like to invite @pelon53, @xkool24, and @franyeligonzalez to the contest. Thanks for reading.