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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:

"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.

"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.

"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.

"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.

"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.

"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.

"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.

While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
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Monday, August 17, 2009

自嘲与他讽

要是我说自己很幽默,那真是天大的幽默,定能让朋友捧腹大笑,因为我更像是说教的八股佬,与诙谐丝毫沾不上边。幽默这个鬼东西,曾让我苦恼了很久,仿佛怎么学也学不来,请教霆辉,他就说了句鬼话:“幽默,是看心境的。”那时候听了真得让我哭笑不得,你自己逍遥尘世外就好了,用不着这样忽悠我这个凡夫吧。

直到后来,我才发觉那句话,真的是鬼话。当不同的人接触多了,不同的玩笑见识多了,沟通的技巧进步了,与人交流的自信建立了,尽管还是与幽默沾不上边,却慢慢觉得自己比较能说笑了。再想回那句话,更有体会。

幽默,是看心境的。什么样的心境呢?我觉得有两种。第一种是有自信时。据说幽默这词是林语堂大师从英文Humour翻译过来的(忘了在哪里翻到,有空才去查证),译得可真妙。在他的其中一篇散文里提到英国大文豪萧伯纳到访上海,正值那天难得有太阳,大家就说:“萧翁真幸运,有福气在上海看到太阳,近来都乌云密布呢。”你猜一下萧翁怎么回答?他冷酷地说:“是太阳有福气呢,能在上海见到我。”真让人哭笑不得。反讽是幽默的体现,而不少大师让人拍手称绝的幽默都是绝妙的反讽,试问一个自卑或没有自信的人怎么去反讽呢?

至于这样的困扰,你经历过吗?就是在很多人或一些人面前总是幽默不起来,但和自己最亲近的、最熟悉的、最信赖的亲朋面前,却能无拘地谈笑风生。谁说你不幽默呢?不过那个场合让你不自在、不舒服、不能展现自我而已,只要在能让你有自信的环境氛围下,你登时就能活跃起来。

第二种心境就是逍遥洒脱。不少凡夫俗子市井小民,对自己的身份、地位、能力并不自信,但也并不耿耿于怀放在心上,做一天和尚敲一天钟,对生活没有太大的奢求,反而让他们的言谈很幽默,无论是对生活苦难的自嘲,对社会乱像的投诉,还是对周遭烂泥的挖苦,听来都觉很诙谐。

人不在这两种心境时,应该很难幽默起来吧。人没有这两种心境,或许也学不到幽默吧。自嘲是一种幽默,但不是所有自嘲都是幽默,有些不过是为了沽名聚焦。如何辨别呢?如果一个人经常自嘲,但却不能接受他人讽刺的,就是纯粹为了吸引注意力,因为他实际上并不拥有这两种心境,不过借预设好的自嘲博君一笑而已。遇到这样的情况,应酬一下,笑笑就好,哈哈。那些能把别人的讽刺冷箭,反射回去或化为自嘲的,才是高招。

所以大家别以为我幽默,我最爱就是高谈阔论。(应酬笑一下,好吗?)

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