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Remember Mindfulness – relax your whole body gradually

Humour

American writer Kurt Vonnegut said that we should
stop being so serious: Jokes help a lot. And get a dog,
if you don’t already have one. Vonnegut certainly
knew a thing or two about recovery from difficult
situations – he survived the Dresden fire-bombing
during WWII because he was locked up as a
prisoner inside an insulated slaughterhouse. As a
professed ‘Christ-loving atheist’, his view of life was
to help each other as much as possible. Can I keep an
open mind and not take myself too seriously?

There is not much to laugh about in the aftermath of
addiction, but in our grimmest moments we
sometimes turn to dark comedy, because horror
and humour are often two sides of the same coin. It
is a bizarre experience to recount one’s appalling
secrets to AA members who react with a nod of
empathy instead of a shriek of dismay. But how else
should we react to life’s great challenges? Absurdist
philosopher Albert Camus’ response was said to be:
Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee? I’ll settle
for the coffee. Today I will take recovery seriously,
but not overlook humour.

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