Sunday, August 22, 2010

Nevermind, (giggle), It's not funny twice

Laughter. Oh how I so enjoy thee. Laughter really is the best medicine, for anything really. A few months ago, I had a really bad day during one of my many play rehearsals. When my mom picked me up, she recognized the early signs of insanity (frustration, yelling out unrelated things at unexpected moments, etc.) She then told me to start singing really loud, and cranked up the radio. No more than ten seconds later, we were laughing at our own singing. By the time we arrived home, I was cured.
Laughter not only cures emotional problems, it can help with your physical ones too. Laughter can build up your immune system by making more antibodies in your bloodstream and saliva. People who have allergies found that laughing made their symptoms grow less and less worrisome. It even helps your heart by increasing heart rate and blood pressure.
Laughter can also relieve stress. After laughter, you feel relaxation because it "works out" your heart and lungs. It is actually recommended to laugh at least ten minutes a day to help relieve stress. Another suggestion is to take deep breaths, and what do you do while you're laughing? Breathing in that Oxygen!
I love laughter. It brings a little more happiness into the world, and gets your heart pumping and your stress heading for the hills. So, when you find someone is laughing AT you, laugh WITH them because now you know that it's good for you. The only thing I have left to say is... That's All Folks!!

(p.s. If you want more information on laughter, you can see more at http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/happiness/laughter-cure-illness.htm :)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Time Travel: a new plot please

Have you ever noticed that when time travel is part of a plot in a book or movie, it's always the same? There's always the same kind of reaction when you travel back in time. You either change the course of history, or it's already been changed because some form of you in the past has done it already. Sure, the means of which characters travel back in time are different, from a DeLorean to a TARDIS, but it all turns out the same. They save the world, or destroy it and THEN save it. So, my grandpa and I took it upon ourselves to create a new type of time travel, and write a book about it.

I can see why all time travel fiction is the same.

Not only is it very hard to decipher the time vortex, all of the ideas that we set forth crashed and burned because they backfired. It didn't help that my grandpa could disassemble our theories with one question.
My theory is that all writers just copy off of each other's ideas and just hope that no one notices. To put up a new theory and have it somewhat "bullet-proof" is a very hard thing to do, and I admire the writers who try. Thank you for pushing against the box that is time travel fiction as we know it. We applaud your courage and persistence. Here's an imaginary trophy. You can put it up in your imaginary trophy room if you want. It's all yours.
My thanks.