Laughing At Yourself

One of the lessons I found hardest to learn was learning to laugh at myself. When you are very close to a situation, it can be very hard to find the humour in it. However, there are times when finding the humour in what would otherwise be a very dire situation can be the only way to get through it.

I’ll give you an example.

When my knee decided to basically explode, an injury that ended up requiring surgery, I was understandably less than pleased about it. How could I be happy? I was going to...