Say Cheese!

Sometimes I snicker when I see or hear campy romance stories. I laugh at the joy others feel when they receive the gift of being loved by someone else. Side splitting laughter bellows from my gut when I see tears rolling freely in a movie built on a love story yet...my favorite movies are built around that premise.

I empathized with Superman when he screamed to the heavens when he found Louise dead from suffocation. My eyes refused to blink when Bruce Wayne's parents were gunned down inspiring him to become The Batman. Goosebumps rose on my arms when William Wallace took on the English because a noble man killed his wife. After every brain numbing, face crackin' beating Rocky took, he screamed out for Adrianne. As Rambo's machine gun spat,"rat-tat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat-tat," I saw how much he loved a country that he felt didn't love him.

Isn't that what we are here for and looking for, in some way or another? My laughter has been mistaken for ridicule, when really it should be received as joy. Seeing my friends happy makes me happy, and more especially - seeing them in love gives me a reason to laugh out of an excitement for the joy I know they're feeling. Say Cheese! :-D