According to Osho, one who makes others laugh often cannot laugh in their presence because deep empathy perceives the hidden misery and unconsciousness people carry. Laughter becomes a compassionate medicine offered to ease their burden, while personal laughter returns only in solitude, when the collective pain recedes. Seeing humanity’s self-made hell, tears arise more readily than mirth.
They make you laugh to lighten your pain, but their empathy for your suffering keeps their own laughter for private solitude.