Wipe away your tears and learn to laugh through pain;
To engross yourself in life’s suffering will cause you to wither away.
Like dews, tears mostly fall during dark moments,
Yet they refresh life with the hope there will be a new day.
Take bad things and make them laugh
That’s what the people of old always say.
My friend, learn to laugh through the pain.
When dark clouds cover life and there’s no sign of a rainbow,
Never follow others and let your laughter go astray;
Why allow dark times to make your spirit lie low,
When dark times are passing clouds that didn’t come to stay?
Oh broken spirit, hold on to laughter until it makes you glow like a halo.
With patience for years, I knelt and turned to the heavens to pray,
For god is ancient and badly in need of a hearing aid.
You want to give god your problems; I just want to give him a laugh.
Why allow my troubles to let my humor fade?
My friend, learn to laugh through the pain.
With highs and lows, life is a well-defined valley,
Yet people spent their entire lives trying to avoid its lows in vain.
Laugh when rise, but cry when fall– a human practice in folly.
Though sometimes it feels as if life’s lows outnumber its highs,
Life is too short to busy oneself with keeping such a tally.
My friend, learn to laugh through the pain.
Life is a complicated mixture of tragedy and comedy.
From childhood, we’re inclined to put merrymaking on pause
When life is not going our way, as if this is a secret remedy,
To learn to make pain laugh is an art that deserves applause.
So allow the voice of laughter to sing to pain its healing melody.
My friend, learn to laugh through the pain.
The secret art of alchemy lies not in making silver into gold,
But rather in making pain into laugh.
One day the reason for all of the human sufferings will be unfolded,
So save your uncried tears, my friend, for it may come to light
That the good things which we always want to go our way
And the bad things that we always want to keep at bay
We’re all just part of a cosmic play.
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