Sunday, February 26, 2023

 

Result,

 

If you are ever going to talk with me, you will find out, that our conversation has a different result, than any of your usual, so-called interactions, which I describe as Disembodied Language (DL). When you talk with me, you’ll realize, you don’t talk with me, but with yourself. This is the most extra-ordinary experience anyone can have: to talk with oneself, while one is talking with others. I call this Embodied Language (EL) and this is the only way, in which we are able to attain our Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

Everything quiets down, once we have EL, instead of DL, but this is not silence or being without words, as it is the embodiment of being at peace with our language. What has been called silence, has always prevented us from becoming interested in and resolved about our language. Also, there is no such a thing as our  mind, but there is absolutely a very different result or consequence from our DL or EL.

 

Participation in DL results in the common illusion, that we have a behavior-causing self and that it is, presumably, possible to be or not to be ourselves, whereas our expression of EL makes us surprisingly certain, that there is no self or soul, as there is only our embodied language, which, of course, makes us aware about who we are, naturally and effortlessly.

 

As a result of our EL, we can no longer deny our LE, which is self-evident, in that, we feel constantly new and joyfully present. Our perception of reality, that we are always only talking with ourselves, even though it appears as if we are talking with others, is only available to us, due to our ongoing EL, but not by having merely a few haphazard moments of it.

 

Brief, accidental, fleeting instances of EL, will make us more uncomfortable about talking with others, as we can never fully grasp, the in DL ignored fact, that – whether we understand it or not; whether we accept it or not; whether we are aware of it or not; whether we want to know about it or not; whether we say it or not; whether we remain afraid of it or not; whether we like to hear about it or not or whether we are even allowed to acknowledge it or not – we always only can talk with ourselves!!!

 

Due to the unaddressed fact, that DL – and certainly not EL – dominates every conversation everywhere, including in academia and science, social dilemmas are broadly defined as conflicts between immediate self-interest and long-term collective interests. This has led to various assumptions and theories about why people are willing or unwilling to cooperate. Of course, no consideration is given to the imaginary, personal conflict, always involved, in having a self.

 

Words have historically always distracted us from our language, which, unbeknownst to us, is either used correctly or incorrectly. In the former, there is no self, but in the latter, we believe in possessing a  self, in the same way, as we believe in a deity. In other words, paradoxically, our language does not and cannot support us, as long as we still believe in a self, which, supposedly, speaks, listens, reads or writes or in some fictional higher power, who, presumably, watches over us, cares about us and is even causing our actions. The only way, human beings are ever going to be truly responsible, is by admitting, that they are either having DL or EL.

 

Since we don’t know about the difference between DL and EL, except for a few accidental moments of EL, we almost continuously, unconsciously, engage in DL. However, these rare occasions, in which we have some EL – in spite of our conditioning with DL – illustrate it is possible and necessary to stop our conditioning. Going back and forth between DL and EL is stressful and most likely results in giving up. To have ongoing EL requires total dedication. I speak from my experience, which has crystallized in EL.    

 

Once we have identified the difference between DL and EL, it makes no sense anymore to go on with our DL. Knowing the difference between DL and EL, means we can stop our DL, by talking out loud alone with ourselves and by listening to our voice while we speak. Ongoing EL, is the result of letting go of our DL conditioning, which establishes us in our LE. While there may be many ups (with EL) and downs (with DL), there is no question about it: EL draws us into our LE. Regardless of how many times we get it wrong and act out our conditioning, we are bound to get better at recognizing – at hearing – DL as DL and EL as EL, and, eventually, we will get it right.

 

Ongoing EL is not a process of self-improvement or self-help, as there really is absolutely no self to be improved or to be helped. There is only the verbal process of discerning DL or EL. We cannot lie to ourselves and we will find out, due to our DL, we have believed in and pursued all sorts of nonsense. To be able to talk with ourselves, it is necessary to fully comprehend the truth, that we can only talk with ourselves. Thus, we cannot talk with ourselves, as long as we don’t accept the new facts of our EL.

 

As I mentioned before, there is no self, therefore, talking with oneself is merely another way of saying that we engage in EL. We may use the same words, we used in DL, but use them differently in EL. We still speak, write, hear and read the same language, but our relation with our language has dramatically changed. In retrospect, we understand that in DL, we have used our language in a stupid way, but in EL, we use language in an intelligent manner. The latter is the result of our LE, but the former is the result of our profoundly, problematic, pathetic, pessimistic, punitive conditioning-history with DL.    

Saturday, February 25, 2023

 

Everyone,

 

Everyone, who has read my writings and has heard me speak about Embodied Language (EL), must be aware, that I am now capable of drawing inevitable, irrefutable, logical conclusions, about this new way of dealing with language. Everyone, who stops their own Disembodied Language (DL) and listens to him or herself, while he or she speaks, comes to realize their Language Enlightenment (LE). Moreover, what we come to know about ourselves and each other, gives us total peace, as we create our own reality.

 

Everyone, who recognizes, speaks about and writes about the immensely important difference between DL and EL, comes to this blissful realization, where it is radiantly clear, one has not only accepted, that having EL with someone, who continues to have DL, is impossible, but also, that one fully comprehends, that it is actually unachievable to talk with anyone.

 

Although everyone with DL believes, we talk with each other, in the reality, which we create with our EL, we find out, we always only talk with ourselves. Stated differently, all our failed attempts and all our endless problems about talking with each other, are finally, during EL, regarded as our tragic inability to speak with or communicate with ourselves. In other words, in DL, our words cannot express who we are.

 

Everyone, who still wants to continue with their DL, will not speak with me and I am perfectly okay with that, as I don’t want to speak with them either. We already seem to agree, that we don’t fit each other. This agreement is confirmed in this writing, in which someone, who is inclined to have DL, nevertheless, can begin to, somewhat, familiarize him or herself with the fact, that DL and EL are mutually exclusive.

 

Everyone, who courageously explores, appreciates, and delights in what happens, if he or she continues to speak out loud, alone, and, therefore, is able to feel and hear his or her resonant voice, becomes conscious of his or her way of using language and of what kind of reality is created by his or her DL or EL. Indeed, everyone, who has acquired the skill of experiencing ongoing EL, by him or herself, alone,    perceives the other (who, presumably, is separate and different from him or her) or the so-called external environment (which, supposedly, is outside of him or herself and creates the illusion of an inner world, in which one imagines having private speech with him or herself) as his or her own verbal reality.

 

Everyone is deluded by the notion, that we can and must only talk with each other, but the fact, that we can only talk with ourselves, remains hidden, due to our DL. Therefore, with DL, we stay ignorant about ourselves. We can only pretend to be talking with each other or as if we care about each other, but our language-reality doesn’t change, because we got carried away by words, in a dream or fantasy, which, obviously, no longer occurs when we die. A big deal is made by everyone, who is afraid of death, that we can attain immortality, because our words, supposedly, will live on forever. This superstitious nonsense shows just how pompous and stupid we are about our language.

 

Regardless of how everyone talks, perceives and reasons – because DL is everywhere – we always only act or try to act in our own self-interest. There is no bigger taboo than talking with ourselves, than becoming conscious of who we are and, therefore, being enlightened. Surely, everyone who wants to explore EL, must let go of everyone else, to be able to do so. Stated differently, talking with ourselves  becomes more important than talking with others, as talking with others in EL is talking with ourselves.

 

Everyone will instantly, effortlessly and jubilantly, wake up from their metaphysical sleep, when they finally stop their DL and begin to have EL instead of DL. Instead of creating more conflicts and problems, with EL, we create order and out of this order our LE is revealed. When spoken and written language expresses our self- nature, we become indivisible, which is the root-meaning of being an individual.    

Friday, February 24, 2023

 

No,

 

No, I am not busy with you, because, unlike you, I can stay with myself. My Embodied Language (EL) always includes the speaker as well as the listener, the writer as well as the reader. In other words, as a speaker, I am my own listener and as a writer, I am my own reader. Language is utterly meaningless if this is not the case. Yes, I don’t care about you, as long as you have Disembodied Language (DL).

 

With DL, we pretend to be truthful, meaningful, fair, moral, empathetic or scientific, but the reality is, we have failed again and again, as we are telling ourselves and each other a big fat lie. There can be no peace, as long as we have DL. No matter how often we repeat this lie, in some stupid attempt to convince ourselves, this doesn’t make it true.

 

How can I be considerate to you, if I don’t even hear myself and am only concerned about whether you are listening to me? In DL, the speaker doesn’t give a shit about the listener and, consequently, the writer – who is used to this disembodied way of dealing with language, in which people don’t listen to themselves while they speak – engages in a form of writing, which sells, because readers, who buy into this nonsense, find such writing very important – even more important than speaking – as they have been conditioned, by DL, to believe in the importance of reading best-sellers, that is, in books which are read by many other people or in scientific papers, which are often quoted in other journals.

 

The language-industry is a big racket. All so-called journalists, authors, public speakers, leaders and professors, unknowingly, engage in DL, but pretend to have EL. The reason, nobody is able to put his or her finger on it, is because we are all trapped by DL, which only allows us to fake it, until we, presumably make it. And, making it we do, as we create in our lives, for ourselves, nothing but disorder, although, as stated, we go on saying and writing, it is order.

 

We are endlessly involved with each other, but not with ourselves, not with how we use our language. In DL, we religiously, superstitiously, unintelligently believe, we are talking with others, but the fact is, we are always only talking with our own image, our own memory, our own previous descriptions of who we believed them to be. Thus, although we are, in fact, always only talking with ourselves, we believe the other is someone, who is different from us.  

 

With EL, we stumble upon an immutable reality, as we are, indeed, simultaneously, the speaker as well as the listener, the writer as well as the reader. In other words, everything that we have for so long believed with DL is simply not true. As far as our language is concerned, we are all the same. Words or sentences do not occur in anyone’s head, but are always, objectively, only spoken with our voice and heard with our ears or written with pen in our hand or typed on a key-board and read and seen with our eyes on a paper or a screen. The old saying “seeing is believing” is incomplete, as it was written from a DL perspective. From a EL perspective, hearing what we are seeing, that is, reading these words out loud and, therefore, listening to what we are reading, is not some belief, but it is the reality of our language.

 

We notice, we are not frightened anymore, once we shift from DL to EL. Yes, we were fearful with DL and we weren’t even aware of it. DL made us unaware of many things, we don’t like, which fester, because we can’t deal with it. In DL, we remain infatuated with and fearful about our so-called identity. In DL, we are always afraid of losing ourselves, since we do not really know who we are, but as we acquire EL, because we listen to ourselves while we speak, we really come to know ourselves and each other.

 

In this writing, I am not addressing the reader, who is not the writer, but reader, who is the writer. Due to this writing, the reader can also finally come to and stay with him or herself. This is our Language Enlightenment (LE), which could not be expressed with DL. Once the great difference between EL and DL has been acknowledged, your DL stops, your EL continues and you will, inevitably, realize your LE.                  

Thursday, February 23, 2023

 

Three,

 

There are three ways, in which I can consider this writing. I guess, I could come up with many more ways, but, for now, three seems to be enough. The first one, is that you read this quietly, but you don’t really understand what I am talking or writing about. The second one, is that you read it, as I want you to read it, that is, out loud, so that you can hear your own voice and get a sense, that you too, of course, could have life-changing, intelligent and funny Embodied Language (EL), instead of dumb, dull and dangerous Disembodied Language (DL). The third one, is that I imagine, that I am saying this to you. My writing today is about this last one.

 

I’m standing or sitting in front of you and looking you in the eye. You can directly hear me, feel me and experience me, as I ask you calmly, to bring your attention to the sound of my voice, which is very different from everyone else, as I listen to myself while I speak. As you keep listening to my sound, you’ll notice, what I say is something you already know, but usually don’t pay much attention to. I’m not fighting to get your attention, to the contrary, I’m attentive to my own self-expression. I say to you, any kind of speech in which anyone is trying to dominate anyone else isn’t communication. I call it DL, because speakers force, manipulate, hypnotize, violate, distract, overwhelm and abuse the listeners.

 

I always talk about this topic, nobody talks about, because nobody knows how to talk about it. As you can tell, although my emphasis is on the third way of writing, the first and the second are included, as I know very well, if you bother to read any of my texts at all, you probably read it quietly and don’t get much out of it. Against all odds, I still hope you read it out loud, as the real deal is, that I’m talking with you, in the same way that I want to speak. As you read this out loud, you become aware, that you have never read anything like this, because you can recognize, that I am enlightened and since you can  recognize this, it means, you are enlightened too.  

 

Your and my enlightenment are the same and we only really talk with each other, when we can have EL and when that is self-evident. The big surprise is that our enlightenment is hidden in our language. When you pay attention to language, like I do, you are bound to discover your Language Enlightenment (LE) with your EL. Therefore, these words, read out loud by you, are the beginning of your EL. However, although you may get a glimpse of what that would be like, the reality of just reading this text is, I’m not standing or sitting in front of you and you don’t talk with me. Let’s face it, you aren’t even reading out loud and, even if you did, you probably gave up on it already, as you got annoyed listening to yourself.

 

It would be better, if you really talked with me, but these words might still encourage you to do that, because if you would bother, to read them out loud, you would actually really meet yourself. Why don’t you like what you hear? What is so terribly wrong with listening to yourself? You need to answer that question for yourself, not because I tell you to, but because you don’t allow yourself to listen to your  voice while you speak, due to your DL conditioning history. You can deny it all you want, but it is true.

 

If you would accept, that you don’t like to listen to yourself, while your read these words, what would happen? Of course, you would stop reading. You reason, there’s something wrong with this writing. It is too personal, too insistent or too uninteresting. How about the fact, because of your DL, you are not allowed to be personal with yourself, as you are not good enough, not smart enough or worthy enough? There are many things about you, you simply don’t want to know, let alone, hear yourself talk about. In other words, while you pick and choose, you never acknowledge that part of you, which you reject. In EL, this wouldn’t be the case, as it always includes and accepts your so-called shadow or dark side.

 

In EL, you continue listening, even if you don’t like what someone says or how someone speaks and, certainly, this, of course, also applies to speaking with and listening to yourself. In EL, you continue reading, even if you don’t like what you read and you continue being involved with your language, as you find out why, it apparently means nothing to you, that you can speak with and listen to yourself. This verbal meeting with yourself would occur only if it could occur, as the sound of your voice doesn’t lie about these words, which belong to everyone.

 

English language is for anyone who acquires it. It doesn’t belong to me or you. Your opinion about the ownership of language derives from DL. As far as I am concerned, the whole notion of plagiarism is based on the failed, intellectual, cowardly attempt to pretend we have EL. This is especially evident with so-called holy books, which, hilariously, fanatically and superstitiously, are said to be authored by some imaginary higher power. Why would I punish anyone for using the same words as I do, for speaking the same language? This nonsense  idea, that someone, that anyone, can be by himself or by herself, the author of some sentences or some verbal phrases, has perpetuated your DL, which, not accidentally, is everywhere. Coercive speech is the rule, that is why your EL never gets any attention.

 

When we share our LE with our EL and truly talk with each other, we agree, the historical DL verbal dominance is anti-intellectual and catastrophic, as it has always prevented us from connecting with each other and, most importantly, with ourselves. At this  moment, you may hear yourself read about these words of freedom, because they neither belong to some to person, some theory, some group or some country. The so-called freedom of speech couldn’t get us to EL or LE. Surely, it was important, up to the point, where we supposedly agreed to disagree, but that never happened. As long as DL continues, we will be, as we have always been, at war with each other and ourselves. We forever argue about  rights and laws, but our EL and LE takes us beyond what was written. Indeed, our spoken language is and has always been more important than written language, but all we have done, with our insidious,  problematic DL ways, is cover up this obvious basic fact about human relationship and psychology.

 

Even though I discovered my EL and LE some forty years ago, it took me quite some time, to figure out that neither any celebrities, lawyers, psychologists, teachers, therapists, scientists, religionists, philosophers or other authorities are interested in EL. All they can do, with their DL, is distract us from knowing the truth, that our DL has nothing to offer to us and should be stopped, so that we can finally have some EL. While reading this text about EL, you should get the point, there is no point in continuing with DL. Your mean criticism, your violent distrust, your arrogant paranoia, your hungry propaganda and your self-defeating skepticism belong to DL, but this text is not about that. This text is about EL, which, because it was spoken, could be written. You have now read my EL about my LE and you could hear – if you had read it out loud – your own LE, expressed by the sound of your voice. Don’t worry, if you didn’t get it the first time around, just read it a second or third time, to consciously experience the intended effect, which will then stimulate you to explore your LE with your EL on your own. And, yes, we can always talk about it with each other.    

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

 

Perhaps,

 

This is the best humor you will ever hear, because it is coming from your own mouth, as you read this text out loud and admit, what a moron you are, for engaging in Disembodied Language (DL) every day. Of course, you can continue to cry and complain about it, but you have already done that for so long, so perhaps, it is not such a bad idea, to laugh about your own predicament and see where it takes you? Your refusal to laugh didn’t get you anywhere.

 

What have you got to lose? You may say this or that matters, but are you having any fun yet? Do you hear yourself laugh? Probably not. You believe in matters, which prevent laughter, let’s leave it at that. Letting go of your important priorities, makes you realize, you got it wrong all along. You believed that not laughing had some lofty purpose, but now  you know, your life without laughter really sucks.

 

Did you know that laughter makes you intelligent? It is true and you will find many different solutions to your laughable problems. This writing needs to be read in a different way, than you read your usual writings. Normally, you don’t laugh, but with this writing, you have to laugh, you just can’t help it.

 

No matter what it is that you read, the reader is always expected to do as the writer says. If you get distracted from these words, you are not following my writing. It’s nothing personal, but get with the program. To see, if it is true, that you become more intelligent with laughter, you have to laugh, so try it out and laugh. Reading this writing is meaningless, if you don’t do what I ask you to do. C’mon, laugh.  

 

This writing is meant to transform the reader, just like that, as the reader hears him or herself, while he or she reads and gets a smile, which turns into a laugh. Let’s exclude politicians and clergy for the sake of having a laugh. You can laugh now about all  pretentious, defensive, ludicrous DL, which kept you imprisoned, but, right now, you’re free, not from identifying with your body, but with your language, because your words say so. Yes, these words aren’t mine, they are yours. They say what only you can tell yourself. You know more about laughter than you expected. And, yes, being truthful is very funny.

 

Now that you have EL, you realize that while having DL, you never had your own truth. It is such a joy, to know what only you can know about yourself, to say it and to hear it. Feeling good about yourself isn’t for those, who don’t have any sense of humor. You are so lucky to have passed the laughter-test. You would be feeling really bad, if you didn’t get the joke, as that would mean, you’re missing out on EL.

 

Although it is dumb, tragic, boring, sad and awful, you keep having mechanical DL and keep shooting yourself in the foot, it is perhaps the only way for you to recognize, that DL is a form of self-harm which nobody dares to talk about, as it is just too embarrassing, to fully admit, that we all engage in it, every day. Even when you don’t want to, you still do, because you are unconscious about your use of language, if you can’t laugh about it. It is perfectly okay to laugh and to let that be the beginning of your enlightenment.  

 

There’s no way for anyone to become aware about their Language Enlightenment (LE) with a sour face. No need to apply for laughter, if you still claim to be right, left, knowledgeable, truthful, moral, justified or religious. You know something is wrong with you, if you don’t laugh. Something is missing, you’re incomplete, you’re dissatisfied, you whine and you complain. Supposedly, again it is not what you had wanted, but what do you want? Do you want to be annoyed, worried and stressed? Of course not.

 

Do you want to continue to be burdened with the false image of yourself. I don’t think so, because I don’t think to begin with. You still can laugh. I say what I can say and write and you read it and hear it and acknowledge, that you do the same and that is superb, interesting and delightful. There is nothing to think about or understand about laughter. You now read about the LE, you’ve always been missing, since you’ve never had EL for this long. It will still continue, even after you’ve stopped reading this.

 

Don’t say: it is too good to be true. Say: it is true, because it is funny and simple. You could have done this a long time ago already. Most likely, you did, but you forgot about it, as there was only DL, which kept you psychologically asleep. You can laugh about yourself being foolish and lazy, as you didn’t do what it takes, to have fun. You wanted others to do this for you, but I don’t do anything for anyone. I enjoy myself by writing and speaking like this. I have what I want and I laugh all the way to the bank.               

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

 

Objective,

 

(I wrote this text below ten years ago, when I used   Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) and Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB) to refer to Embodied Language (EL) and Disembodied Language (DL). The only thing I added was the second part of the last sentence. As I reread it, I realized how important this text still is.)

 

In Embodied Language (EL) nothing is copied by anybody, because nobody can be a voice for us and we have to be our own voice. To communicate with our natural, resonant voice, can only occur if we pay attention to how we feel. In Disembodied Language (DL), however, we do not pay attention to how we feel. In DL, we dissociate from how we feel. In DL, there is no experience of how we feel. Moreover, in DL, our knowledge is always out of sync with our experience. In DL, we value knowledge more than experience and subsequently, due to such so-called knowledge, we disconnect from our experience.

 

In DL, third-person, supposedly, objective knowledge is disconnected from our first-person, subjective experience. Due to DL, we persistently over-emphasize the former and, consequently, the latter protests and is causing us to be distracted from the former. In DL, our lack of attention for our emotions causes us to be obsessed with knowledge. Said differently, when our emotions are not and cannot be expressed accurately, our failure to do so  inevitably results in our so-called thinking, which is  problematic, as it prevents us from the experience of talking. DL burdens us with self-defeating ways of reasoning. EL, by contrast, restores and increases our own experience and allows us to use our own  knowledge in ways to enhance talking-experience.

 

The fact that DL can instantaneously disrupt and make EL impossible, teaches us that we either are going to continue with DL or we continue with EL. As it stands, we do not even know the difference between EL and DL, but once this distinction has been made, we notice, that our lack of knowledge regarding this distinction, was the consequence of our lack of experience of this distinction. In other words, our knowledge regarding our way of talking is embedded in our own experience. The distinction between our lack of experience and our lack of knowledge is vital for how we interact. Because of our over-emphasis on our knowledge, our lack of experience is completely overlooked. And, that we only pay lip-service to our experience indicates, we do not recognize its essential function for human relationship.  Each time we that have had EL, it was because it was possible for EL to continue, but we  continue to have more DL, if it remains impossible for EL to occur. Because EL signifies absence of DL and because EL exposes, analyzes and ends DL, DL  continues by making it seem as if EL doesn’t exist. Yet, the stressful, draining impact of DL is always experienced by everyone. Only when we express our stress and hear its sound, will we attain EL.

 

We underestimate the importance of our own experience while we communicate. Because our experience is ignored and because DL is more common to us than EL, we like to believe that our communication will improve, once we come to know more about it. However, no scientific findings have led to any improvement. To the contrary, the more we have come to know, the more difficult it became to maintain hope that knowledge will one day fix our communication. Although nobody believes anymore, knowledge can enhance human relationship, we still push this knowledge-agenda, while we ignore the importance of our experience.

 

Our private experience is made to be unimportant, because it is considered to be subjective. What is supposedly more important is objective knowledge. In our scientific quest for objectivity, we have kept down-playing the simple fact that human beings have subjective experiences, which must have their expression. By making it seem, as if there is one ideal, supposedly objective, way of communicating, we block out and ignore the expression of our subjective experiences. As long as our subjective experiences compete with our so-called objective, scientific knowledge, our subjective experience is discarded by default. Due to the lack of hope or faith in knowledge that can reliably improve our communication, we carry an individual burden. As individuals remain conflicted between their own subjective experiences and the so-called facts, they create their own version of so-called objectivity.

 

So-called choice for what is presumably objective, is unscientific. Objectivity has absolutely nothing to do with what we believe. The heart in a human being’s chest is really there and is not a belief. Likewise, individual experiences are really there, even if this means that someone hears voices. The occurrence of so-called mental illness is based on our ignorance about our own experience. The more we will know about our own subjective experience, the better we will get at preventing mental illness. So-called mental illness represents an individual’s demand for attention for his or her own subjective experience.

 

The idea that the solution for mental illness must come from objective knowledge is false. Any kind of  improvement can only result from the deliberate attempt, by a knowledgeable person, to restore the importance of someone’s subjective experience. However, therapists or psychologists are not the dispensers of the reinforcement. The wonderful self-reinforcing effects of EL are self-evident, as people will begin to trust and express their own experiences. Thus, communicators will become objective about their own subjective experiences in EL and this is their Language Enlightenment (LE).

Monday, February 20, 2023

 

Done,  

 

Let’s face it, although you haven’t even started, you’re done laughing already. Don’t pretend, as if someone else was funny, because you are fooling yourself. There’s nothing to laugh about and that’s the bottom-line. To be clear, the bottom-line, is the line at the very bottom, you can’t get any lower. A former colleague once jokingly said to me: man, I’m feeling so down, if I look up, I can see the bottom.

 

It’s depressing, but also funny, that you can’t laugh. There’s absolutely nothing to laugh about anyone’s depression. Yes, you are totally depressing and, yes, you’re right, I don’t care about your depression, as you want me and others to be depressed with you, but what good is that going to do to anyone? I’m not doing that. I stay away from you, because you even prevented me from laughing about myself.

 

I know the art of laughing on my own behalf, but I  had almost forgotten this profound ability, because of you. I starting feeling down, because you are letting me down. I don’t take any responsibility for your inability to laugh. I’m not like you, I’m not a quitter. It is obvious, why there’s nothing to laugh about for you. Unlike you, I keep talking aloud with myself, until I have found something to laugh about.

 

You must have heard the example, that when you start counting red cars, you suddenly realize how many red cars there are, as they seem to appear everywhere. Well, guess what? When you look for things to laugh about, you’ll find everything funny. I’m not exaggerating, it’s really true. Presumably, you don’t have a funny bone in your body, but I just don’t believe that. What works for me, can work for you too and you can still acquire a sense of humor.

 

Depressed people need humor-treatment, but this is not provided by me or by some therapist, but by themselves. No need to laugh about my jokes, I can do that myself. You must begin to laugh about your dreadfulness. Look deeper. Haven’t you had enough of it yet? The joke is on you, if you admit how rotten it really feels, to be as miserable as you, all the time.

 

Suicide is, of course, also not a laughing matter, but aren’t you having some laughter-ideation, because,  somewhere, not deep down, but just underneath the surface of your superficiality, you just want to get it over with? You’ve got to get under your own skin, to be able to feel better within your own skin.

 

I fully support and highly recommend the honorable hara-kiri of laughing about yourself. Stop killing the joke. Stop playing dead and become a funny person. How about that? Doesn’t that already sound much better? And, you haven’t even done anything yet. Also, you need to stop feeling sorry for depressed people like yourself. Let them have it. Escape, like me and laugh with relief, that you have left them.  

With laughter it is a matter of us-versus-them, but in a good way. You either belong to the group that laughs or to the depressing party-poopers. The choice is yours, I didn’t make it that way. I didn’t prevent you from laughing, but members of your team drag each other down. Although I didn’t  and couldn’t make you laugh, it’s no use blaming me, as you didn’t and couldn’t make yourself laugh either. Why do you expect me or some comedian, to do what you refuse to do yourself? What good does it do, to laugh about others, but not about yourself?  

 

I guess, you never got that joke, that the joke is  always on you. Let me try to explain it for you.  the bottom-line is the punch-line. You’ve got to hit rock bottom and your depression is your motivation for laughter. People with depression are often said to not be motivated. They are believed to be helpless, hopeless and inactive, but nobody ever talks about the hidden motivation, to laugh about that misery.

 

Don’t say that you don’t want to laugh, because you want to and you should want to laugh, how else will you get out of your funk? Haven’t you had enough of it yet? Don’t judge me for not being interested in you. I create my own happiness, with the funny way I use my language, by talking aloud with myself.  

 

You don’t need to talk with me, a therapist or some psychologist, but with yourself. It is so sad, and, yes, it is so terrible, to be you and to acknowledge, that you keep preventing yourself from laughing, but the up-side of it is, that that is the only reason, you feel so lost, listless, lonely, lazy and low. Go ahead, have some more, because I’m not going to prevent you from not laughing. That’s a double-negative, may be you would like to try a triple-negative? Bring it on.  Are you going to prevent yourself from not laughing or are you going to continue to live in this caved-in manner? It is now or never. What is it going to be? Are you finally becoming so bored with your own depression, that it is starting to become funny?