Ever wonder if your life is a comedy or tragedy? Well I did not till I stumbled upon a movie scene. "Stranger than Fiction" (2006) , and roughly here is the scene.
The guy keeps talking to a girl in a bakery. He has a small empty notebook, and on each of the facing pages are the titles "COMEDY" and "TRAGEDY" respectively. As he is conversing with the girl he marks a line every time he says something with a sense of humor on the comedy side. Every time he offends the girl, or says something stupid he marks a line on the tragedy side.
Try to track your conversations with people and see are they humorous in general, or are they morbid. If you don't agree with something, do you end a conversation with a laugh saying "that's a good way to look at it", or do you pout and say "I don't agree with you"?
Below is a good difference between tragedy and comedy thinking, from the source http://www.creativity-engineering.com/comtrag.html
Tragedy | Comedy |
| We feel | We think |
| We're unique | We're like everyone else |
| We strive for the ideal | We accept the real |
| We despair the human condition | We celebrate our humanness |
| We can't change | We change in the nick of time |
| We're crippled for life | We learn from life |
| God punishes us | Other people humble us |
| It's someone else's fault | We asked for it |
| We die! | We live! |
I think for me it's a mix, with some leaning towards the comedy side.
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