The art of making people laugh!

I have been assigned an assignment, as part of my Toastmasters club , to simply put smiles on the members and the guests faces. (click here for more information about Toastmasters)

Normally, we as Toastmasters, get the assignment before a week or so, so we can have plenty of time for planning it (If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!). However, it is quite expected that people sometimes, due to many situations, cancel their assignments. Thus, other active members need to be ready to take their roles, accordingly. This is exactly, happened to me last Saturday, when one member, supposedly doing the "Joke Master" assignment, passed it to me for taking it over. I have been called at 5:00 PM to be ready for the 7:30 PM meeting!. Well, it is not only you have to let people laugh, but you have to be very picky in what sort of materials you are going to provide them. SEX, POLITICS & RELIGION (SPR'S) jokes are not allowed in Toastmasters, and unfortunately, 99% of my jokes are some where revolving around these things.

So, after some struggles, I have managed to pick up few "clean" jokes and present it to the club.

I have always thought that making people laugh is the easiest job. But, I guess I was not right. I found that it takes a lot of efforts, thinking, perfect body language and good-timing, to let others genuinely smile, not even reaching the laughing stage! It is really an art, that many people think that can be made in a blink of an eye.

My experience, proved to me that you need to control your voice patters, your facial expressions, body movements, and when to stress some words and when to not. The content is of course important, but I think all the other things are a must-to-have, so a joke turns out to be a funny one. That's why we find many times that if someone tells a joke, we laugh hilariously, while if another person tells the exact joke, we might even not notice when he is done!.

The "Charisma" is the secret...

So, show them how much alive you are!

"Alive"... That magical word

If we check out the dictionary, we would find the below possible definitions for the word "alive":

• In existence or operation; active
• Full of living or moving things; abounding
• Full of activity or animation; lively
  

Well, all the above are well said, I can't question any of them. But, do we really need to live just for :

• Being in operation?
• Moving? or
• Having a full of activity?

Do we really need that? I think, we have much a bigger role to play in this world. And God, didn't send all the creatures for a sake of "existence" only. We are meant for a bigger thing, and yet too many miss to figure out that, and those who managed to figure it out, even partially, they did that very late!!! I am a big believer of showing all sort of livelihood when our hearts can beat, our minds can function and our soul scan be reloaded. Being alive, feeling alive, living alive and ultimately showing alive, can make wonders in our daily lives. But, HOW?

Well, this is something easily said that done, I can't with my little fingers and a keyboard, siting in a very comfortable chair, give the magic recipe for it. It is never work like a press button, and I will never assume or even think that I can know all the secrets.

However, I will blog from time to time, about how can we express it, give it, take it, share it and most importantly have a faith in it, that it is the reason why we are here on this earth. I know people do breath, eat, have sex, talk, walk...etc. But, these are a very tiny part of the whole picture. These physiological activities are a must to have for a majority of people. Being alive encompass much more of that...

Till the next one, see you and show them how much alive you are!

The "Re." Part

Hi there!

I am starting officially here my first blog, though I have tried a "beta" version of the "re.loaded soul" some time back.

I shall call this a "Re." stage of my blogging activity, where I start preparing the mindset for such , I would call it, a big responsibility that is worth taking and doing it. Many do blog, and I have stopped by quite a good number of blogs, and many have really impressed me by their spectacular efforts that have been put into it, and some others have astonished me with their added spice of creativity, superb graphical touches and genuine funny materials. On the other hand, I saw people with no clear messages and were blogging for one reason:

"I am here, mate!"

Honestly, I don't want to blog for just a sake of adapting with the ongoing "wave". I have made this decision, and it was not an easy one, after a lot of thoughts and serious analysis, I have made up my mind. Some of you might say I am over-analysing it, and it is really like the Just-Do-It thing. I have a different opinion, anyway. Since blogging is still in its very early period, and there many advancements are expected to come, not only technologically, but also purposely, I call this a "Re." stage of the web.

In every "Re." level, being anywhere or with anyone, this has to be a starting point. In any start, there are two main challenges:

- To start really.

- And to maintain the phase afterwards.

Thanks god, I have done the first one, and I am eager to do the second step, hopefully.

Well, that was a pretty short introduction to the blog, and next I will be talking about this slogan:

"...SHOW THEM HOW MUCH ALIVE YOU ARE"

Till then, let us show them how much alive we are!