The Conscience Is Funny

We’ve all heard the comment that “life is funny”. We laugh or giggle, but really life IS funny and the conscience is even funnier.  The conscience has a strong sense of humor and there was no better example of it than this past week. All over the news we heard stories about the impending election, and the night and the days that followed. There was a newness to all the reporting. The media was less serious, laughter was openly expressed, and everyone seems a little happier.

I was speaking to a parent of one of my players in my basketball program today and we were talking about the election and how everyone seems so lifted, and more accessible to each other. I said to him that, I realized that for the past 8-years it was like we were all depressed and didn’t know it. We both laughed because we knew there was a certain amount of truth to what I was saying.

A conversation I had tonight with Henry, my spiritual companion, increased the clarity to what we are all feeling. We are feeling the effects of the Cap coming off the world and the conscience being unleashed. I could feel the truth to that, as I am sure you can. As a result of the Cap being removed, the conscience has had a lot of fun reporting on the election results.

Henry has always had a very amazing way at looking at the world and our surroundings. Speaking with him is like taking a ride on a roller coaster that never ends. He looks at things from a funny place and in the process brings a lot of laugher with his truth.  He is the funniest when working with other people. The people he is working with don’t always see him as being that funny, but they can’t deny the truth.  Laughter is a part of work. If you are not bringing laughter to your work, you’re probably not listening to conscience or you might just be a part time user of the conscience.

My mother has been ill for the past two years. Several times, according to reports, she was on her deathbed. I would rush to New York and there she would be looking fresh as a daisy. During this election, she was at the polls at 5:30 am to cast her vote. My entire family got a kick out of it. Mom, who can’t get around all that well, got moving on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, to make sure she cast her vote. I have to check with President- Elect Obama to see if he can have a major event every week. For at least this one day, my mom, listened to conscience, and gave us all something to laugh about.

Bill Maher from Real Time, in his opening monologue this past Friday had this to say regarding the election :

“ Americans have gotten behind our racial past and picked a black man to clean up our mess.”

When I heard this I cracked up. There was so much truth to this statement that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Here it is, all of the blacks, rejoicing about finally having a recognizable black president and really the white folks were voting for a highly qualified janitor with  Ivy League degrees.  The conscience really does have a sense of humor.

When do you ever recall seeing Presidential Candidates, during the election, being on Saturday Night Live and allowing themselves to be made fun of? There is no denying the conscience. Protocol and the Secret Service couldn’t get in the way of it.

Another funny tidbit from conscience had to do with the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger being interviewed on CNN by John King. When John King asked him what it was like being a republican in his house with his wife, Maria Shriver, a democrat and a Kennedy, here is what Arnold had to say:

“She is walking around the house with a cardboard cut out of Obama saying “Obama, won, Obama won.”

What’s even funnier is that Arnold, the muscle guy, is the Governor of California. Did you ever see his movie Stay Hungry, with Sally Fields and Arnold? It was a funny movie about Arnold’s desire to make it big in America as a muscle man. He even wore a cape and Mask

Laughter is important to our lives. I really enjoy a good Laugh. Norman Cousins believed that Laughter was a cure all for many things that ailed you. He even wrote a book about it entitled “Anatomy of an Illness-The Healing Power of Laughter. In the book Cousins address how, in 1964, he found laughter in the face of a life threatening illness-Ankylosing Spondylitis (deterioration of the spine).  Cousins discovered that hospitals were no place for the seriously ill. It was more or a less a place to go and die. So he checked himself out of the hospital into a hotel, got a movie projector and started watching funny movies. It appears that Cousins tapped into conscience and was given direction on healing himself.

The next time you feel down, or you feel that the economy is against you, that life isn’t fair and that all you need is a break or two try asking the conscience for a little laughter to lift you out of your self-pity and into WORK.

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