Irreverence is Bliss: Surviving the Holidays

I have come to believe that a sense of humor, like fine wine, gets better with age.  Perhaps it is with the wisdom of life experience that we become better able to laugh at ourselves (or at others, depending what type of humor you enjoy). In my case, a richer life experience gives me a perspective I wouldn't have had at 25, or even at 40 - and this perspective includes a decidedly irreverent sense of humor.  Finding humor in the face of serious subjects, figures of authority and just about anything else that could be considered verboten has always been second nature for me.  I was the kid who could find humor in just about any situation; I used it to break the ice, diffuse tension, cover my feelings of awkwardness as a teenager, and to entertain my family at the supper table.  
The world around us can be a sad and frightening place - technology makes advances at lightning speed, humans seem determined to do increasingly horrific things to one another, and the prospect of world peace feels like a pipe dream.  As Christmas nears, more than any other time of year, I haul out my irreverent "eye scope" in order to keep my view of humanity in check.
Take Christmas music, for example.  I'm sure we all have favorites - the ones that make us feel all warm and fuzzy the first 25 times we hear them and put us in a Christmas mood.  By Christmas Eve those same songs are producing twitches and growls as we lunge for the off switch.  (Boney M, Kenny & Dolly and Jose Feliciano, I'm talking to all of you.)

Read the entire article in the Dec/Jan 2014-15 issue of InD'Tale magazine.

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