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LAUGHTER AND WELL-BEING

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Hello everyone, it feels good to be back again with this topic which I feel is interesting and enlightening. I am sure many of you reading this must have heard the slogan "laughter is the best medicine". For a moment I had to ask myself why is laughter referred to as medicine. Can it really heal? The answer is not far off you know...Why would someone pay so much money to go watch a live comedy show? By the way, comedians are making a lot of money from making you and me laugh. Why are there so many skit makers springing up everywhere around the world? This is because laughter has a lot of potency to the point that it has now been commercialized or monetized. We all laugh; some more than others, but it is a universal human characteristic. It makes people happy and brings them together.  Although there is some controversy about whether laughter is a learnt or innate trait, most experts will reluctantly admit that laughter is not a learned behaviour. Laughter is universal, despit