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B"H When a quilt of devastation so disharmonious with nature is all that re mains, the price of basic needs and services will become exorbitant. The disharmony is energ izing the sound waves and cultural manifestations no longer invigorate the senses, the drab and confounding taste of life reflected in the art, dra ma, and literature of the contemporary society can be downright depressing. So me children never learn to laugh and people go through life never having experienced inner happiness. Food had been genetically engineered to be more profitable but tomatoes have lost their taste, peaches taste like the gas in which they're ripened, citric fruit is harvested before the juices beco me sweet. A couple of decades ago people utilized laughter as a weapo n to ostracize people who aren't conforming to ones expect ations and whom by ridicule can be enslaved. As if attracted by strong electromagnets, the mind can 't remain passive in response to vociferous laughter aimed at our egos. "I didn’t laugh at you"; absolution of responsibility for infliction of pain, behavio r encouraged and exploited by modern society. I suppose it can be dealt with better than outright violence, "Sticks and stones will break by bones, but na mes will never hurt me." We have a natural instinct to be included in the joy of mutual sharing, and when it's at the expense our personal honor, it hurts , it denigrates of self-confidence. Emotional contagions spreads through the percussions of laughter with the force of a hurricane throughout the enclave of Internal Develop ment Uniquely . There is a particular "Lub-Dub" rhythm to a laugh that releases hormones in the brain ; engendering harmonious pulsation of breath and heartbeat, attracting glance s to our smiling radiant faces. People are desperate to enjoy the facia l release and explosion of breath that accompany a good laugh. Passage of events in which I was laughing happily or doing so to cause someone hurt stick in my memory . I conclude that some opportunities will arise once in the span of a lifetime and neve r more, with such traumatic force they are never forgotten. The y will beco me occasions of happiness or sadness, so we have to know where to place priorities in life. May I plead for your forgiveness, promise to never do it again, and have withstood the temptation to do so. Rational Faithfully 242