Have you ever laughed until you cried? Have you ever laughed so hard nothing comes out and you just sit there clapping like a seal? I have multiple times. In fact, it’s pretty much part of my daily routine. Even if I laugh a little bit, my eyes would water, just like when you yawn (if you’re like me). The way I see it, laughing is like a medicine. When you’re down, angry, frustrated, sad, I believe it is a natural, healthy cure. Even in awkward situations and embarrassing moments: laugh your way out of it. It’s like the ultimate way out of those kind of situations. One day, I was in school during a science class. To my surprise, the teacher announced a science test! Yay. I took my seat and was handed the test. ‘What the heck am I doing?’ I thought to myself, staring at the gibberish on the page. As I was looking around, seeing if anyone else got a clue as to what they were doing, my best friend and I had caught each other’s eye. I attempted to communicate to her by silently mouthing words but she hadn’t understand anything. Later during the test, she caught my eye again and was making silly faces at me, clearly showing she had no idea what she was doing either and had nothing better else to do. I tried to hold in my laughter, but she knew me better than anyone else and definitely knew how to make me laugh even when I didn’t want to. Darn it. A couple minutes in, I couldn’t hold in my laughter any longer and just spat out crying in the middle of the room with everyone staring at me. I was laughing so hard to the point that nothing came out. I quickly cupped my hand over my mouth and sat straight in my desk, pretending nothing happened with tears of laughter still bundled up in my eyes. I then got sent away by the teacher into a separate room, isolated from all my classmates, to finish the test.
(half fiction, half not)
