The jokes which reach us when we’re in the bottom of a dark pit, the ones that make us give a reluctant half smile at the absurdity of it all, even as we’re struggling to climb back up to normality? Those are the ones we need. It is these jokes – delivered by friends or strangers who may have no idea of the torment we’re enduring – these ones that put solid ground beneath our feet and carry us back to who we are, and were, before we landed in the pit.
