This site has been created with the intention to cross-exchange a few elements that have been somewhat lost in the fray, to normal internet and personal exchange within our current culture.- Storytelling – of hilarious moments!!
Storytelling in general is a lost art-form- and who doesn’t love a great storyteller; weather it’s your best buddies or Old Uncle Joe, there is something that binds and bonds us as human beings when we laugh. And, to further define for this site, we are talking not just “chuckle about” as we do when we see a funny YouTube, or average stand-up comic, or text to a friend “lol” but having [and sharing] a full on- loose your junk -crazy wailing laugh out loud- with others– is the real point here.
Think about it- even if your in a group of “don’t know that well peoples”, and someone shares an over-the-top, get you at your gut-level, funny story, or incident…your sold!! Also- when these occurrences do happen… it has the potential to be the best healing experience as true organic medicine on our planet! Medical experts claim laughing strengthens your thymus gland- true! In a quote from: Laugh Often Mindful Pathways it states:
“Laughing is so good for you. As soon as you engaged in a side-splitting laugh, you changed your body chemistry by downloading a whole lot of feel-good endorphins that caused you feel better emotionally and physically. You reduced your stress and boosted your immune system with nothing other than the pure enjoyment of the moment”.
Purity at its best! But enough of the science stuff.
And lets add to this. When your gettin’ on your “lose your grip laugh”,it makes your day, week, or possibly month,and creates a great memory! Which is also why this site is created , to cross- pollinate laugh memories and to create a community of resurrected storytellers & memory makers! Who knows, you’ll maybe even discover something about yourself…that your a great storyteller/memory maker; and you never even knew you had it in you!!
So, take a stab at it, won’t you? Take a minute or a few, to close your eyes and meditate a bit on some of the funniest things that have ever happened to you or that you have ever heard. That’s where you start, and you will find your memories have the capacity to dial up some of the funniest s***! This I Promise. Retell it here to upload and uplift for a change! It’s a big bad world out there as we all know. Share your posts and create new funny “heart stamps” for others to carry about for a brief time and then know you’ve made a memory -which is also an art-form as well!
So then when your daydreaming on the memory [and yes,day dreaming itself is another lost art-form] and someone looks over at you during work, church, [shhhhh!] or next to you in the bathroom stall- and you bust-open, with a crazy person’s snorting laugh-because your remembering a story you heard here on Laugh Shelf, you will then have evidence that a new Rolodex of culture has been rediscovered, proof that hearts and minds are hungry for what you have to relate- and ya’all helped!
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