🎩 Mark Twain – “A Cure for the Blues” 💡- 1871
In a world that takes itself too seriously, one man discovers a remedy for despair — and it isn’t found in any doctor’s bag.
Mark Twain’s A Cure for the Blues begins as a simple confession: a man plagued by melancholy claims to have found a miraculous cure. Yet, as he tells his story, we realize that his medicine is laughter itself — laughter at human folly, hypocrisy, and the grand absurdity of life.
With razor-sharp wit, Twain skewers pretension and self-righteousness, transforming gloom into amusement. The cure he prescribes isn’t faith or philosophy, but the ability to see through nonsense — and to laugh at it.
💬 In this brief, brilliant satire, Twain reminds us that the surest antidote to the blues is not solemnity, but humor — that warm, dangerous light that exposes truth and heals the spirit.
✨ A Cure for the Blues endures as a timeless dose of Twain’s finest medicine: irony, laughter, and a touch of rebellion against the world’s self-importance.
