…for a brief interlude of joy.

Take it, and enjoy the minute (or actually 5 minutes)…tell me it doesn’t make you smile, or bring tears to your eyes, as you enjoy friends and family helping one man create a memory of a lifetime for his bride-to-be.

We all have the constant dribble of the crap of life in our lives…no escaping the fact that we live in a fallen world where bad stuff happens…and even if it’s nothing major, it wears on a person. I remember reading somewhere that sometimes the little hassles of life can feel a little like, “getting nibbled to death by ducks”.

For me, amongst other things, this week:

• Found out a friend has had a reoccurrence of her cancer, it isn’t good. Buying her time now is the best they can do
• The new platform for our website is postponed yet again…this feels like the zillionth delay…a project I had hoped would be finished in October has yet to be completed…and I can’t post videos on the current platform anymore! Hence, the link, rather than embedding the video…yuck.
• The lawnmower isn’t working…and the recent rain has our grass growing like a weed…oh, and the weeds are growing like weeds, too!
• My car got broken into last night. The GPS was stolen…which is lousy because not only am I (ahem…) directionally challenged at times and it comes in really handy, it was a Christmas gift from family and had sentimental value.
• My banking institution…AARGH…the third screw up in a month…and while they smile as they apologize, they don’t give the company any reimbursement for a mistake and our resultant hassle to clear it up…this drives me nuts because they don’t fail to ding the company a small fortune when a client’s cheque comes back NSF…just seems like its unfair
• Marking…sigh. I despise marking. Classes finished, and now I must finish marking…and I would rather walk across broken glass than mark. But it’s not going away, and I gotta get to it.

I realize that many people have much worse stuff on their plate than I this week. In fact, I had conversations with several who are in that position in the last few days.

Big crap like:

• job loss and resultant uncertainty
• the devastating crush of infidelity
• the agonizing loss of a loved one that has one feel like part of one’s heart has been brutally amputated
• the intruding and unwanted but violently felt flashbacks of days of helpless victimization at the hands of someone who seemed to enjoy the hurting of another.

Watching a video of innocence and joy and celebration and fun and delight doesn’t make the crap disappear, but it “puts gas in one’s tank”. It lightens the load on a person’s soul for a few minutes. It creates some lightness and respite, giving some energy. Then when one reengages with the crap of life, there is a bit more resiliency, and a freshness to deal with it. Laughter on any day, no matter how dark, is a good way to be able to develop some inner resources.

It’s good to laugh with tears in one’s eyes.

So…your life won’t be any different…after watching this video, your spouse will still irritate you, that messy closet will still be mess, the unpaid bills will still be calling your name…but watch the video and allow yourself to sink into the beauty of its love, and the hilarity of its humor.

Over eleven million people have watched it in the last week and a half.

I think they are onto something. 😉