So I am sure a lot of you have seen that video of Candace Payne with the Chewbacca mask on laughing her ass off on Facebook?

If you haven’t, then check it out: https://youtu.be/QBJsQDDLGVQ

It takes awhile for her to get to the point, but once she does, OMG you cannot help but to laugh your ass off with her, so watch it until the end.

What is it about watching someone else laugh so hard that it is completely contagious? I think I have an answer…authenticity. This woman is being completely, and truly authentic. Her laughter is genuine and real. You can tell she keeps setting herself off with more laughter because she can see and hear how funny she is on her own video recorder and she laughs even harder.

I remember a quote I heard on a live concert recording of the Indigo Girls 1200 Curfews Album and I believe one of them said “you have to laugh at yourself sometimes…otherwise you will cry your eyes out.” Then they went on to start one of their awesome songs.

It is indeed so true that we must laugh at ourselves. Look how much laughter brings people together? How many people have you talked to about this funny video in the last week? I would venture to guess a few, right?

Sharing the gift of laughter is so incredible. I heard a story on NPR about Candace, and how people were reaching out to her to say how much that very video helped them pull themselves out of a deep funk or depression. It had that kind of impact on me as well.

I have been feeling sorry for myself the last two weeks looking like Frankenstein because I have stitches in my nose from surgery to remove a basal cell cancer spot on the end of my nose two weeks ago. Today the stitches come out thank goodness, and I am hoping it doesn’t look too scary. So this video of Candace laughing so truly hard at the mask and herself was so awesomely perfect to lift my spirits and know that all really is well.

More than just the video itself had an impact on me, and that is she is coming from a place of true authenticity. Although she was wearing a mask and laughing at herself wearing the mask, she herself DOES NOT wear a mask. She is real and being her true, authentic, laughing self. To me that kind of a person is a true light in this world.

I am a lot like Candace. What you see is what you get. Authentic. Have you noticed how many people seem so distracted and not present? I do. Every where I go all I see are people looking down at their phones and not at each other. I find this very worrying, as we are not as connected human to human as I would like to see.

Everyone has their reasons for doing what they do, but I like to be like Candace Payne, and be real, and laugh my ass off.

Namaste`, y’all!