I don’t think about a lot of the comics I make. I usually start them a few minutes after I realize that I should be asleep. They’re usually pretty bizarre, they’re not always funny, they’re not always meant to be funny.
I’m kind of thinking to myself here… I could be the next guy who says that stupid thing that the internet hates.
I mean, part of what I do here is that. I make fun of things. Well, I think it’s fun, anyway. I like to think it’s pretty harmless.
I don’t really think I’m pushing the envelope or anything. But, most of these guys I’m reading about in the news thought the same thing. They were just trying to be funny, or make a point, or whatever.
Peoples lives have been ruined over this.
Like I said, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, really since the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Really since I have a family now.
I’m not going to stop or anything, I don’t think I could stop saying stupid things if I tried.
But the capacity is there.
I don’t think that’s going to happen to me, but it’s made me realize that I have to forgive more. Don’t get me wrong, I think I already forgive a lot… however… I just realize that life is too short to not have a laugh about this nonsense.
Sometimes we say and do things that are hurtful. It isn’t necessarily those specific things that are the terrible things, though. It’s our-humanities- lack of compassion to forgive each other for saying something stupid.
I’m not talking about people who have no remorse, but for people who do. We should be forgiving each other, and for selfish reasons. It could easily be one of us who the tables turn on.
I’ve been thinking about this, and I wanted to say it out loud.
No one was listening when I said it, though, so I wrote it down.
You know, for posterity.