Good news are scarce these days, war on one side, hunger on the other. It may explain the popularity of the websites devoted to jokes and funny pictures . Of course, laughing at funny animal pictures won't erase our worries about the world, but they can help us forget, if only briefly.
In the morning, after surfing the net to read the daily news, spending a few minutes looking at funny cartoon pictures can't hurt. It brings things back into perspective somehow, highlights the amusing sides of politics.
At night, at the end of a stressful day, it's always nice to browse through funny baby pictures , if only to remind ourselves that peoples aren't all that bad, that the meanest has been a infant at some point, perhaps even a funny one.
Yes, I do believe funny pictures can help us look at the brighter sides of life. If the dog wasted our best pair of shoes while we were at the office... browsing through funny pet pictures may well save us from throwing the stupid animal out in the rain and then spend a restless night feeling sorry we did. And if we happen to sleep alone, a look a some funny adult pictures before going to bed will likely convince us that, being alone, is not so bad after all.
