NetSujit World

We have five basic senses, eyes, smell, touch, hearing and taste. But people also speak of a “sense of humour”, “sense of self”, etc — there’s countless “senses” if i keep mentioning the list. And so i got a topic to write something new here on my blog. I wanna talk about ‘sense of humour’ today.

When you say that so-and-so person has a good sense of humour, what you actually mean is “Their sense of humour agrees with mine — they laugh at the things I find funny” and not that “he understands all the jokes of the world”. So in this respect a ‘GSOH’ isn’t so different from good eyesight — it’s a question of perceiving it right about things you think that is right. I hope you understanding my language.

But it isn’t just about perceiving. ‘GSOH’ could have plenty of other things implied with it– that the person can tell jokes as well as recognize them, that they have an appreciation of quality jokes, that they laugh frequently, that they’re optimistic, that they don’t take themselves or life too seriously, that they can be the centre of a joke without getting offended, and so on and on and on.

What you have here is a connection of qualities, abilities, skills related to perceiving and not just perceiving alone. ‘GSOH’ comments on personality in a way that ‘good eyesight’ doesn’t.   The word ‘sense’ here is closer to sensibility, mentality and creates a totally different cloud than the usual five senses of human.