How often do you just *Have a laugh?

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I miss it

@Blinki Yes 🥰I just mean I used to be always just having fun and having a laugh, even at work with friends. Is it a getting older thing? Or becoming a parent thing, you don’t laugh as much, or perhaps not in the same way?
If that makes sense!

What's missing from life? Can you bring it back or do you need to find something else to replace it?

If you're not enjoying things you used to enjoy you might be a bit depressed.

@Namechangeforthis88 I’m good, thank you 😊 I just mean that laughing for ages thing, I feel like I’ve not had if for ages 🤔
Does anyone else?

I feel like this. I would say that overall I am happy but it is quite a while since I have had uncontrollable giggles or cried with laughter

Yeah definitely laugh a lot less these days. Although I put on a film the other night that I had no high hopes for and actually found myself laughing out loud and realised that I couldn’t remember the last time this had happened.

Nope. I'm going out with the girls tonight. And having my 2 best mates over for dinner tomorrow. We laugh and laugh so much it hurts. Perhaps you need to make the effort with your old friends?

I do occasionally, most often with DH but sometimes with a particular colleague at work when something tickles us the right way and we just can't recover ourselves.

Few and far between though (and I don't have kids, so can't answer if that would make me more serious!).

Quite often- DP can be very silly, which makes me laugh. He's also just a funny person generally, and we share a similar sense of humour.

DS1 (26) also makes me laugh a lot sometimes. As does ds2 (15).

We're quite a lighthearted household tbh. We find humour in most things.

I actually found since becoming a parent I laugh more cause toddlers might be testing but they are bloody hilarious 🤣

Laughing is so important. I feel you sometimes need to be the one to start it, if that makes sense? Conversations can sometimes be stuck in the mundane things, and you can say something stupid or make an observation that is just a bit fun. God that sounds lame...but hopefully you know what I mean!

a few years ago I went away with some old school friends for a long weekend abroad. We’ve all stayed good friends but getting quality time together once we have families of our own, work and elderly parents can be tricky - we planned this weekend for years. I laughed so much during this weekend at one point I was sobbing I’ve literally never had laughter turn to the uncontrollable hysterical sobbing ! It was very strange but also a very happy sobbing ! Anyway, friends are the best medicine and if you can plan time out with them then I can definitely recommend ! Life is definitely more serious as you get older!

I know what you mean! Years back I was in a pub with a friend and remarked I liked the jumper a very stylish girl at the bar was wearing. Friend came straight back that I couldn't say that, because I couldn't see the front, and it could have Mr Blobby embroidered on it for all I knew.

Such a random and stupid thing to say but we both laughed until we cried at the thought of it, and took about half an hour to recover.

(I appreciate that you probably had to be there).

I often make my DH, and myself, laugh by messing with Alexa when we're in different rooms. Dropping into the room he's in with stupid sound bites, or faffing with the lights.

I couldn't bear to take all of life seriously, there's enough seriousness we have to deal with, without adding more voluntarily.

Very rarely. Not much since I had kids. Lone parent, don't drink, no family, job.
Teen DS did make me laugh in the summer though, I remember that.

I have a very unsophisticated sense of humour and laugh a lot. I can’t remember what started it, possibly a stupid dad joke, but even though (or perhaps because) we were all exhausted DH, DSC and I laughed so hard earlier I nearly choked. It’s small things that usually do it and being around people who find similar things funny.

I do know what you mean, there are times when life isn’t fucking funny at all, but there’s usually something that makes me smile and at the moment a lot of things make me laugh. It’s good for the soul.

I laughed so much I was snorting the other day. A thread on here about 'she wouldn't shut up so I made owl noises'. Seriously the replies and discussion were just 👌🏻
Also my toddler makes me laugh a lot. The totally random crap she comes out with can be so funny. The rest of the time I'm gritting my teeth because just do what you're damn well told is on repeat inside my head, so I try to enjoy the funny bits when they happen.
But ikwym. Seems there's a lot to get us down thevlast couple years, which has coincided with becoming a parent (twice) and having more life stresses in general

I'm happy and smile a lot, have a bit of a giggle with my charity shop crew, but I can't remember the last time I laughed till it hurt.

Everytime I look in the mirror

Honestly can't remember the last time!

I hadn't in a long while probably before Covid (not due to Covid). I went through some major life challenges in the last few years and equally a lot of my friends and family have as well so the last few years have been boosting each other, getting through the days etc.

I met with a group of people this weekend that I only got to know recently and it is the first time in years I cried laughing. Ended up having to hold my ribs with laughter!

Yes!I’m 37 and still having a laugh!! With my dh daily mostly and with my colleagues at work (we have the best laughs) we spent our whole lunch break laughing our hearts out yesterday after a night out on Saturday (which we spent laughing and dancing!) I actually miss my work gang when I’m not there. And the best thing is we range from age 23 to 48 and we have the best time!

@SaveMeCheezus it's just the daft stuff sometimes, I agree! I love it when you are with someone who just cracks up at the same thing, it's gold.

Laugh daily.

Be that at home or work.

I'm always quick to smile and quick to laugh.

Because, it's a habit. If you don't do it for a while, you forget it after a while. So gotta keep the habit up, stay in practice.

We were all laughing so hard in the office the other day, we had to ignore the phone and various teams calls because we couldn't stop laughing and kept setting each other off.

I definitely laugh quite a bit. With DD, with my sister, with my mother (93 and very sharp), colleagues at work, actually some of my funniest times are at AA meetings where we have a kind of shared humour, sometimes a bit dark.

I have a very odd sense of humour, and recently couldn't stop laughing for ages at a possible answer in Cards Against Humanity (family version) which was about a snake.
I am currently not working so don't have any workmate banter, but do enjoy a laugh with friends and family.