In The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “Perhaps I know best why man is the only animal that laughs: he alone suffers so excruciatingly that he was compelled to invent laughter. The unhappiest and most melancholy animal is, as might have been expected, the most cheerful.” That quote captures the harmonizing of two polar opposites in our mortal existence, signifying life’s pleasure and grief’s pain. In fact, humor is…