This is a silly pop article that isn’t really about much of anything.  In hopes of the idea that I can continue to put out more of these, and less of that serious, long, drawn out prose from the high-chair I had conveniently and purposely placed on top of my soap box in the past, I offer this mediocrity.  Has lol, rfol, or lmao become the new indicator of nervousness in email, chat, text, or any other form of electronic communication?

Before you laugh out loud at the rediculousness of this assertion consider this.  How often have you started off a conversation with lol, does anyone start off their conversation with you in this way?  When you really wanted to use a smiley face or emoticon, yet did not know the keyboard shortcuts or did not have them at your disposal, did you type lol?  

I am a laugh out loud type of person.  I wasn’t always though, before antidepression drugs or MOAIs but these days there is plenty to laugh out loud about.  People get angry, and the humor in anger is that when it is expressed people look vulnerable and for the most part, rediculous.  I know that I do.  You have to sit back and look at recordings of yourself or see yourself through someone elses point of view.  How silly did you look?  You should laugh out loud already.

You go to work to a job you hate and put your poker face on and dress up in clothes you would prefer not to wear just to sit in traffic listening to your MP3 player.  You don’t even get along with the people you work with, and you won’t leave that job because you can’t find anything else that pays better.  How silly is that, it’s no wonder people laugh out loud.  

You’ve stayed in a relationship out of fear of being lonely and put up with a bunch of physical and emotional abuse.  You’re a fine looking fella, not a cad, and it isn’t even your child and you know it.  But you treated the last few girlfriends like crap so you’re punishing yourself, or enabling her to.  That’s very, very silly, because you wouldn’t have talked to her when you were doing your thing living it up, though now you’ve settled down.  Wait until she finds out you’re not even that much attracted to her anymore, if she doesn’t already.  Yet it gets better; she isn’t really all that into you either, in fact you’re free to leave.  Have to laugh out loud about that one.

We have to laugh out loud, because life is hard, or at least we have a way of making it so because we are at our best when we are stressed out.  Laugh at yourself before someone else does …