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Week 52 was very exciting and successful with interesting topics to discuss. This week's first issue has passed successfully and from there we can see that many contestants always enter the contest by presenting their best writings. And today we will going to second editions of this week, and in this edition we will discuss one of our habits, that was joking.
Of course everyone has joked, but sometimes we often joke too much and it sometimes offends other people. I also have an experience about it and this time I will discuss a little about this joking.
In life, of course we don't live alone and we definitely interact, be it with friends, family, or even strangers. This interaction will certainly make us talk about many things. As time goes by, we become more comfortable talking about many things with the people around to us and to make more fun, we sometimes make a few jokes on the sidelines of our conversation. But for those of us who have a best friends, the joke even more often and even deliberately joking about many things and of course all of that to make us laugh. Sometimes we often insert ridicule, insults, and even satire in our joke, but for our best friends, they already understand and they are can accept what we joke about, they ignore it and just enjoy it, but sometimes some of them are actually offended by one of the things we joke around and sometimes we don't realize it.
As a result, they take offense and sometimes they show it. This is what sometimes surprises us with those whose moods suddenly change and this is what happens when we joke too much and put a lot of things in jokes. I even often do it when I'm joking, teasing my friends and laughing together afterwards. However, some of them sometimes reciprocate for what we have insinuated and this will usually trigger a fight just because of trivial things.
I'm one of those people who often jokes and sometimes is too far in my joke, and I often make my friends angry with my jokes and usually that's a natural thing because I've also been angered by my friends when they joke. But when I was in school, I really went too far in joking, I not only satirized one of my friends but I also did Body Shaming against him and if I remember that it was really outrageous.
One time, we gathered in the canteen and we sat together and talking, there were many people there and we talked and joked one after another. There was nothing wrong at first, all the innuendos and insults were digested properly and were taken as mere jokes and everyone laughed. But I made a mistake even though I made everyone laugh out loud, and I really didn't realize my mistake at that time because I was subconsciously insulting my close friend who was sitting right beside me.
So, my friend that I made a joke of has a deformed finger, and this not everyone knows and I'm one of his confidants to know about it. I didn't have a problem with that and he even told me that he had the deformed finger since he was born, because of an accident when he was little, one of his fingers became deformed. I keep that secret for a long time and I didn't know that it was a secret, and I think everyone knows about it. So when we got together at that time, we ran out of jokes to tell and then made my friend's crippled finger become the object of ridicule and jokes. It started with me revealing that he had a deformed finger, and joking about it so that everyone laughed including my friend himself. Because of that I didn't find anything wrong, and because everyone was laughing I assumed this was fine.
But after everything was over and it was just me and my friend in the canteen, only then did he give a statement about my joke on his finger. He was very disappointed about it because other people shouldn't know about it, but I deliberately announce to everyone and taunted him with a deformed finger. Of course I feel very guilty about that and I apologize and try to explain my reasons why I dared to joke about it to him. However, it was in vain and that was the last time he put his trust in me, he felt that I was the one who made someone's imperfections the subject of jokes and ridicule, and at that moment my smile became fake in front of him. But as time goes by, we are still friends as usual until now, but maybe not with trust.
From my experience, we can conclude that not everyone is happy with our jokes, even so that doesn't mean we shouldn't joke, but don't mock and insult someone too much in our jokes which are just for laughs.
Joke properly, and if we have to use our friend as an object for jokes, at least don't involve his physical form, circumstances, or other things that are sensitive because that shouldn't be a joke.
