Seriously Funny

With the human mind's ability to contemplate things, whether it be the future or alternate universes, conversations with other humans can get quite interesting. They can also get fairly intense, even if they start facetiously. In this post I'll be discussing fun conversations, serious conversations, and the middle ground.

Fun conversations are just that. Fun. They're hilarious, and can be about anything. They can be productive or simply entertaining. Filled with jokes, laughs, and well... Fun. These conversations serve the purpose of keeping positive jubilant energy flowing through all people conversing, it allows you to easily speak about touchy subjects with ease and without getting down and helps keep people uplifted if they have a personal experience with the subject, allowing the person speaking to them to be more comfortable with asking questions and making comments. The challenges with fun conversations are getting very deep into a subject can be challenging, if there’s someone who finds the topic serious they will usually be upset at everyone’s facetious thoughts and/or comments on the subject.

Serious conversations are much more structured. You have to think before you speak, less laughs, smiles, and giggles, more straight faces. These conversations are often about more important topics both visceral and logical. They have less jokes, more formal, bigger words, and definitely more boring than fun conversations. Kidding, for some people that may be true, but they’re often too serious to be bored for (unless it’s a lecture in school, or a meeting presentation, have fun staying awake then). The purpose of these conversations is to get to some point, whether you are teaching, learning, or working to find an answer, you’re usually attempting to get somewhere with serious conversation. Serious conversations often allow you to get to deeper levels of a subject quicker than fun conversations, and keep things professional for all the people involved so that no one’s making jokes that may cause an affront. Conversely, these conversations can be and often are more draining, negative, and/or anger inducing.

The middle ground is simply having serious conversations, truly attempting to reach a point, but using humor now and then, simple digressions, sarcasm, and short jokes. These conversations are to get to a point while keeping everyone light-hearted and comfortable, while still getting everyone to think and push the topic forward. The best answer to many things are often in the middle, the same goes for conversation, have meaningful conversations, but don’t make everything too serious, everything should be humorous, like Stephan Hawking said, “like would be tragic if it wasn’t funny.” don’t make life tragic.

In the end however, all conversations, funny, serious, the mean, they all have a purpose, and as long as you are using them at the right time, they each have a place in conversation and society. Not all conversations need to have a point other than humor, not all conversations should be joked in, and with those said the mean is also not always going to be appreciated. Know your audience, know what you want, find your balance, conversation is a skill, a deep one. That’s all for this week, I hope you enjoyed. Have a laugh-filled week and I’ll see you the next, peace.