Cheerfulness feels good 29. The good they do is inconceivable. It is an excellent medicine. When you are low and perhaps feeling sorry for yourself, find something funny to laugh at. You can't feel really bad and laugh at the same time.
Laughter feels good and it is contagious.
When things are a bit sour between friends, what better way to set things right, than to have a good laugh together. The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. This is a condition that we can usually do something about. By regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.