'Laughter is the best medicine': 23 Laughs That Will Guide You On Your Inner Journey to a Happy Brain (December 27, 2025)

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Dec 27, 2025 7:00 AM EST

You did it, bestie. You survived another holidays season with the family. Congrats!! Your reward? These memes below!

If only there were a real award that the government or at least your therapist would give you for such an accomplishment. Even if you have the best family in the world, it still is exhausting being squished back inside of your childhood home with them for several days. You thought you would grow out of hating being told what to do when you were a teenager. Turns out it is even more frustrating when you are an adult being told what to do and how to live your life. But hey, we're not here to dwell! We're here to celebrate! (With memes, of course.)

It's all fun and games until you realized you haven't given yourself a moment to LOL. You seriously going to go into the new year living like that? No way. 2025 had too many frowns. 2026 is going to be all about smiling big ole teeth grins ear-to-ear! We are used to the state society is in. So now all there is to do is keep trucking along and laugh along the way. In fact, heck it! Laugh the entire way! Your demons won't know what to do when you just laugh at the intrusive thoughts they just forced into your head instead of panicking over them. After the things you survived! The lessons you learned! The toxic patterns you finally put an end to! No way, demons. You're so unserious now.

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What's your New Year's resolution? Mine is top compliment others more. Because why not? It's nice for everyone involved and something that can easily be done! “I'm going to lose 50 pounds this year," “I'm going to learn how to play an instrument," bla, bla, bla. Listen, you know you better than anyone else does, no matter what your therapist or mom says. So, just commit to something that you know will bring you happiness, you don't need to conform to whatever society thinks you need to do. You do you! It's 2026, it's time you embrace everything you are.

If you need some encouragement for that, then we gotchu. Let these memes show you that life isn't that serious. It's about the LOLs we share with ourselves and others along the way. So let's make 2026 full of laughter!
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