Hidden Thoughts

Today someone told me, that one has to be very careful with making jokes or sarcastic comments in front of me. I would always fire back and tend to judge people according to their jokes and comments. I thought about it. And I am not sure, if that person, was right about that observation about me, but actually I think the jokes and comments someone makes, tell a lot about someone’s personality. A joke or a sarcastic comment is usually a very spontaneous action. You cannot “plan” a comment; you don’t think about it, you just say what comes to your mind. All day long we can control ourselves and the things we say. We can deliberately form how other perceive us. But when you make a spontaneous joke or comment you are just you without your controlled mask. Jokes reveal the real thoughts of a person. What also means, when I am able to laugh about someone else’s jokes, we probably share a certain mind set. I know of many people, including myself, who value a lot to share the same type of humour with a person in order to have a good friendship or relationship. This seems to support my thesis. So I think in order to get to know someone you have to listen very carefully to his or her spontaneous jokes and comments.