The laugh that surprises you can reveal how long you have been holding tension.

A laugh you did not plan arrives from below the level you were managing. Until it comes, the tension it releases feels like ordinary background. Then something breaks it open and you feel the difference in your shoulders. The surprise is not the joke but the discovery that you had been braced.

When a laugh catches you off guard this week, pause afterwards and notice what let go. That is a fair map of where you have been carrying things. You do not have to fix it, only know where it lives.