Genesis
First, there was silence.
Then came confusion.
And finally—a laugh of relief. Of realization.
They say laughter and silence are two different things.
But in truth, they are one and the same.
Like two sides of the same coin.
Like a paradox: impossible and possible all at once.
Like a joke.
I mean the joke.
The greatest joke ever told.
The one many have understood—without ever hearing it.
Maybe it never really had a beginning.
And if it had no beginning, then it can’t have an end either.
That’s why it’s so hard to tell.
It’s not easy to tell eternity—
it doesn’t start with E, and it doesn’t end with Y.
The Paradox
Telling the joke usually kills it.
It’s like trying to talk about silence.
Nonsense.
Shhhhh…
Silence!
See?
It doesn’t work.
These words are making noise in your head.
To put silence into words… is to make noise.
And that’s the explanation.
But no one truly laughs after you explain a joke.
You know what I mean?
I believe we were all born already knowing the joke.
I also believe that dogs get it.
And donkeys.
Foxes, trees, deer too.
Honestly, everyone gets it—
except humans.
Well, most of them.
Beyond Understanding
The thing is: a joke doesn’t make you laugh when you understand it.
It makes you laugh when you feel it.
Because words, no matter how precise or poetic, will always fall short.
They express feelings—but they are not feelings themselves.
Like a single drop of water claiming to be the ocean.
And it is, in a way. But not entirely.
The joy of life lies in experiencing the joke,
in sharing it—
but to do that, you first have to feel it.
The joke has always been within us.
It’s the words that have hidden it.
So I’ve made it my mission to live a life
that reawakens the spark of humor we all carry inside.
I want to make people laugh.
So much so, they might drop dead from it.
Seriously.
Literally.
In other words—
they’ll have a patatús.
And now, here’s the first joke I’d like to share with you.
Tell it around.
And let me know how it goes:
What did one silence say to the other silence?
P.S.
The answer is not “nothing.” 😉