October 22, 2025
Some thoughts hit harder when you realize they’ve been true all along. Lovecraft wasn’t known for optimism, but he did have a knack for exposing uncomfortable truths,and this one might be his most honest.
The world is comic. Not in the laugh-track, sitcom way, but in the kind of absurdity that borders on divine mischief. We spend our days trying to organize chaos: color-coding calendars, planning futures, rehearsing the right words for moments that never go as planned. Meanwhile, the universe quietly unravels our neat little scripts. Coffee spills on the one white shirt we own. The internet crashes five minutes before a presentation. We trip over nothing in a parking lot, and the only witness is the stranger making direct eye contact while pretending not to laugh.
The cosmic joke isn’t that life is cruel, it’s that it refuses to make sense. And yet, we keep showing up. We keep trying. That’s the punchline and the miracle all at once.
Lovecraft’s humor hides inside his horror. He knew that our attempts to make sense of everything were as funny as they were futile. But maybe that’s what makes life beautiful. The joke doesn’t have to be on us, it can be with us, if we’re willing to laugh at how little control we actually have.
Because when you step back far enough, every disaster, every awkward moment, every heartbreak starts to look like part of a much bigger story—one written with the kind of timing only the universe could pull off.
So maybe the goal isn’t to figure out the joke. Maybe it’s to learn to laugh anyway.
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