Sep
Some Reasons for Humor
Written by live7n on September 20th, 2007
In the Middle Ages and earlier, people believed that human being had in their bodies for life -giving liquids - one of them was blood and other three were choler, phlegm and melancholy. These liquids were known as humors. They were not always equally mixed and if a person had more of one humors in his body than of the other three, it affected his nature and character. Thus some one with much melancholy humor would be melancholy person, one in whom blood was prominent would be sanguine or cheerful; one in whom choler was prominent would be choleric; or hot temperature; and one whom phlegm was prominent would be phlegmatic or cool and calm.
But this theory was not accepted in the later days. In later days people have said that any happening which makes us feel superior to other makes us laugh; we are glad that it has no happened to us. This idea may help to explain why people often laugh when some one slip on the ice or marvel, sits on his hat or is the victim of a practical joke. It is true that we laugh at many things that would be unpleasant if they happened o us or if they led to serious hurt to other person. But most humor is neither unkind nor cruel.
Certainly humor is one of the thing that make it easier for men to live close together in large groups, for so many things might lead to quarrels if they were taken seriously. We call a person ‘good humored’ when he is not made bad tempered by all the odd and irrigating things that can happen to him in everyday life.
