Just an Average Person Turning the World Right Side Up

We can help those around us by brightening up our surroundings and our attitudes. Courtney Cook/Unsplash

A friend of mine was recently venting woes to me in the midst of his bad day. Grumpily recounting his attempt to cool off by walking to a nearby store to buy a soda, he said, “I got halfway there and I realized, ‘I don’t have my mask!’”

His frustration over this last straw was too much and I burst out laughing over the absurdity of his situation and everything else that is wrong with the current world. My laughter was infectious, and his grumpiness melted away as he joined me in a hearty chuckle.