Bottle it up…

Today was play-date day and while it went fairly well I am thinking that a 6.5 hour play-athon on a school night is not the best idea. As any typical four year old friendship functions, they went from hugging and hula dancing to disregarding each other’s existence like clockwork. I was the clown of the event, juggling melt downs left and right and I was always glad to step away when the love was rekindled. Girls are crazy emotional little beings and I am honestly frightened thinking about the rollercoaster we will be riding in a few years. Tae is going to run. us. ragged, I can guarantee it.

Enough about the offbeat parts of the afternoon, my real point is the laughter. I am amazed at how much these two girls were able to laugh. It was invigorating and beautiful. It is strange how as we grow older most of us lose that ability to laugh, to laugh just for the sake of laughing. I know a lot of it is embedded in the silliness, but when was the last time you turned to one of your friends and said “let’s laugh”??? How about this, “when I look at you, you laugh. Then I’ll look away and you can look at me, and I’ll laugh”…have you said that lately and then laughed SO hard that your laughter became silent??? Have you laughed with such commitment that it enlightens the people around you??? Tae can laugh like that. Not all the time but when she really laughs, when she puts a part of herself into that laughter, it does something, something special. She has this way of laughing from her gut, from deep within, and out pours this rolling laughter that involves every muscle in her face and just radiates this joy. It is like all the wonder of life wrapped up in this adorable rolling giggle. It really is fantastic. I don’t think I can describe it in a way that would do the laughter justice. I wish I could bottle it, bottle the feeling it creates in the air, and sell it. No, I would give it away because it really is something that everyone should have the opportunity to experience. I would give it to you if you were having a bad day and I would feel confident that you would feel better, you wouldn’t be able to help it because the laugh would envelope you. It makes your heart smile, makes you appreciate life, makes you long to laugh just because you can.
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