My first visit to an inpatient psych unit (Kamp Kaseman in Albuquerque) was after a lousy attempt at not being here any longer. I was in a cruddy mood and didn’t enjoy anything. And then this dude Peter told me the joke immortalized in this meme:

Why did the depressed chicken cross the road?

To get hit by a car.

And Iaughed, for the first time in at least months of not a year or more

There’s more to this story but I’ll skip ahead to the epiphany:

If you can laugh at the horrible stuff in life, it doesn’t seem quite so horrible.

We’ll be exploring this ideal on the Headspace S**tshow as an ongoing segment. Stay tuned!