Humour and Wisdom Speech – 2

"Respected, Principal, Teachers and Dear Students!

Today is the orientation day for all of you. We understand, you have joined this college to gather wisdom and knowledge which must help you in the future. But I would like to talk on another important but a little lighter topic, i.e., ‘Humour’.

Each one of us may have heard about the term ‘Humour’ and ‘Wisdom’, but a few know about the origin of ‘humour’; it originated from the concept of the ‘four Humours’ in earlier medicine. It means that human emotions are directed by four various bodily essences or humours. This signifies that humour can trigger the emotional level. Wisdom on the other hand is the state of being wise.

It is often believed that wisdom and humour are contrary to each other, but by adding a little humour into a wise statement can make it easier for the audience to grasp even difficult statements.  In fact, many comic statements have something sensible to tell us regarding life.

While, wisdom guides us through life and helps us in drawing conclusions about it, humour relieves stress and helps people in coming together as a society.

Humour and Wisdom are the two important characteristics of human nature. Not every human possesses these important qualities; some may be humorous but not wise and others may be intelligent but not humorous. Only few people possess both the qualities together. Wisdom and Humour, combined together make a person smart. There is an interesting relationship between humour and wisdom; humour may not be wise, but wisdom has the power to create a vigorous humour.

It’s also important to be humorous in life because of the ever-increasing stress and anxieties in today’s world. Wise people tend to stay silent and patient but a healthy and harmless humour mixed with wisdom keeps a person healthy and fit.

We can also learn lessons from our respected Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi; he is not only very intelligent, dedicated and hard working, but he is humorous too. He always uses light jokes in his speeches in rallies or social media. This may be one of the prominent reasons why he is so fit and popular especially amongst the youths.

Humour also has several faces. While healthy humour lightens the mood of the people, at the same time vindictive humour may hurt others. Such humour doesn’t have any relation with wisdom. A wise person thinks several times before speaking and uses humour in a restricted manner.

So we can say that humour and wisdom are the two qualities which can exist together and can present very smart ideas, can talk smartly and can invent smart things. In fact, when combined together, wisdom and humour can be a very influential combination.

Thank you.
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