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What's So Funny?

    Humor- defined as something that creates amusement and induces laughter. However, something that you find funny may not be found as funny to someone else. Therefore, the circling question is, what do you find funny? What is your sense of humor?

    Personally when asked this question, I could not give you one answer. But after thinking on this question, I came up with the fact that I tend to laugh or even make jokes about things that aren't always "appropriate" or sensitive towards other's feelings. With this being true, I would say that I define my humor as "warped" or even a bit of dark humor. However, at the same time, I could also find myself laughing at something so simple, such as a video of a kid tripping and falling. So, why do we laugh? And why does something that could make me laugh so hard til I cry, not make someone else laugh at all? I am not saying that this a definite answer, but I do believe that a lot of your humor and what you find funny, stems from your family or who you surrounded yourself with. For example, whenever my family and I go somewhere, we purposely make sure that my mom and I are separated in order to make sure that we don't laugh or be disruptive in times when we need to be more respectful. Overall, I do not think there is one answer to what makes us laugh, however, as of where our humor comes, there are definitely some elements that play a role. But these elements differ for everyone so these questions remain open-ended with infinite possible answers. 

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