coping thru laughter

We Filipinos love to laugh. We love it so much that we use laughter to make our problems go away.

The other night, I was talking to our neighbor who got most of their things damaged by the flash flood (brought by Typhoon Ondoy) that happened in our area, and I can’t help but laugh with her as she was telling me how they dealt with the fast rising waters. At some point, I even thought she had fun.

Though she lost a lot of things, she still considered themselves lucky compared with those still suffering from lost of homes and loved ones. While she did say that it’ll be a tight Christmas for them this year, and that we’ll be lucky if we ever get christmas cards from them, what she had was but a minor inconvenience.

When I left, I could still her and another neighbor regaling each other with their own flood stories, both of them laughing at their predicament. I guess that’s one way of coping.