I have talked to many people who are in the throws of a relationship problems or a relationship that is on rocky ground and the one common thing I recognized is that people have allowed the situations to destroy their sense of humor.
They have the tendency to take things way to seriously and allow minor relationship issues to be treated as major catastrophes. Instead of laughing at the little things that come to annoy and irritate them, they get super serious and expend all their energy trying to eliminate them. Like the person who sees a fly in his house and immediately uses every thing he can get his hands on in an attempt to kill the fly. Eventually he has ruined his house, broken his furniture, injured himself, used all his energy, and spent his valuable time to kill a fly that will probably die on it’s own the next day.
Sometimes time has a way of handling these little minor issues. So learn to laugh a minor issues and see the humor in everything. This will keep your stress levels down, your productivity up, and prevent you from destroying your relationship over something as minor as a household fly.
The other thing I learn as a child was that people love to be around you when you laugh and no matter what a clown does, it’s hard to stay mad at a clown. So keep a smile on your face and learn to laugh. It’s healthy and leads to healthy relationships. It reduces unnecessary stress and it’s contagious. You start laughing and before you know it others will be laughing with you. So develop a good sense of humor, don’t take yourself so seriously, and remember “Everyone Loves a Clown”.
