Man Plans, God Laughs - April 10 2026

 

Man Plans, God Laughs

April 10 2026

The word “tragicomic” came to mind.

Perhaps this is life’s version of physics’ holy grail

the theory of everything;

after all, what doesn’t it describe?

There is dark humour

black comedy

and laughing it off.

You can be is wryly cynical

or make light

of seeing life’s absurdity.

And there are best laid plans

laughed at by God,

Man’s tragicomic dilemma. 

We grin and bear and carry on

suspecting that in the end

it comes to nothingness;

I suspect it’s not just me

who’s a nihilist

making the best of things.

I like the internal tension of the word,

the conflicted feelings it represents. 

That no emotion is pure.

That life is complicated.

And that we somehow muddle through

at war with ourselves,

laughing and crying,

loving and hating,

and shrugging with resignation

at the existential foolishness

of this improbable life.

It amuses me

how two things can be true

all at once.

So I wait for the next bad news,

then shake my head and smile through it

knowing that this too shall pass.

That comedy

is tragedy plus time,

and I can always console yourself

that when the worst happens

I’ll have a great story to tell.