I joined a new Toastmasters’ club called Laff Masters. Over the last couple or three years Toastmasters International has been branching out into specialty clubs – we have a dance club, an eating out club, a story tellers club, a project management club, and many others and now we have a Comedy Club. In this club we will learn how to present in a more humorous way, tell jokes without forgetting the punch line and getting our timing down right so that the climax is a climax in the presentation. During high school I was considered the comedien of whatever group I was associated with – then something happened - I was no longer the funny, witty, full of fun person that I used to be. I guess I was not a real comedien or I would have sustained that persona over the course of time. I became more serious, more introspective, more sedate, in fact I became quite boring. I still have a great sense of humor – that is, I can see the humor in most everything – therefore I don’t find myself getting upset about many things, but I am not funny – I can illicit laughter through wise cracking, but I’m not gut busting funny, and I probably won’t ever be – but at least I can learn how to project my sense of humor outward and let others enjoy what I see as funny.
Just yesterday I pulled up to the drive up ATM at the bank to get some cash. As I was sitting there waiting for my transaction to conclude I noticed a small metal plate attached to the machine with a message which read something like this: ” If you are seeing impaired, we can offer audio assistance”. Now this struck me as really funny – and somewhat scary – if my vision was impaired, what was I doing driving a car up to the ATM window – and also, if my vision was impaired, how could I read the sign to know that I could listen to instructions if I couldn’t see them. I laughed to myself all day long with that little bit of humor.
As I began thinking about what stories I could tell that would be humorous I remembered the really embarrasing and horrifying time I had getting into a girdle a few years ago. My granddaughter, Trisha was getting married, and as hard as I tried, I couldn’t seem to get my weight down to where I wanted it. We had purchased a dress for me to wear and had to have it altered – bigger,that is and I still looked big, fat and lumpy in it, so decided I needed a girdle to make me look better. The gyrations, grunting and groaning, pulling, twisting, panting, resting, huffing and puffing, and more groaning I had to go through to get into that thing was atrocious, but I was determined to look as good as I could for the wedding. I might be uncomfortable, but I would be presentable. Needless to say, I spent a good deal of time standing up during the wedding because it hurt my midsection to sit down. This would be a good story – and it would not only make people laugh, but some of the crowd would be able to relate to my perdicament. And the best part is that I can end the speech with something that will show that I am now able to get into that girdle that I no longer need with no sweat or tears.
That is the best part of becoming the body weight that is perfect for me. I give thanks every day for being able to develop a program that works for me – and no longer have to worry about getting into girdles – or looking fat and lumpy without one. I did become aware that it took something like this to make me want to become my “perfect body weight” for the rest of my life, so when other events came along I didn’t have to go on a crash diet – not reach my desired weight and then be unhappy because I didn’t look as good as I would have liked. I alse became aware that the time to start thinking about never again having to diet was when I first started my new diet. By the time I reached my desired body weight, I was in the habit of listening to my body, visualizing myself as I wanted to be for the rest of my life and looking and acting like that person, and knowing that I could stay this way and be that thin, attractive and completely in control person that I had always wanted to be.
I’m looking forward to the next event, which is my birthday in December. My daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Karl are throwing me a birthday party and I am inviting all my friends in all my different groups to help me celebrate and I will have a new outfit – in the size I always wanted to wear – and not have to get into a girdle. Hip-Hip-away!
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