Some may say there’s a lot to be angry about these days. Much to be concerned about. Much to be disheartened about. All of which is true. This year has dealt us a bad hand. We keep pivoting and adjusting. There’s grand hope. But let’s get back to the anger part.
For many people, anger is swelling up from within. However, as Ralph Waldo Enerson supposedly noted “for every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Such a statement implies that anger is a wasted emotion as one can instead spend one’s time on happiness. Indeed, I myself rather be happy than angry.
Yet anger shouldn’t be seen as a wasted emotion. It can serve as a motivator. It can be cathartic snd enlightening. If channeled correctly and left as a temporary, rather than, permanent state of being. Further, there are times when anger is completely justified.
What you feel is real and is part of your day and being. If one could avoid all anger-inducing situations, life would be joyful. Supposedly. Sometimes joy is even more intense after anger. We are cauldrons of emotions and we shouldn’t always put a lid on it.
Categories: Culture, current events, Health, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
Compersion the Empathy
Of Feeling Pleasure of
Others.. Sadism the Empathy of Enjoying
The Pain Of
Others..
Ancestrally
Sadistic Psychopaths
Who only Harmed Society
In Getting off on inflicting
Pain to others Were
Pushed off Cliffs…
What A Conundrum
It is When Folks
Seem to Hoot
And Holler
In Joy
When They
Continually
Are ‘Shot on
5th Avenue’
While
‘Injected
With Poisonous’
Lies and Ignorance
This is What A Court
Jester Does With
Anger as
Killing
Roaches
Doesn’t Kill
The ‘Species’
But it’s True Pest
Control is Easier
When The Roach
Motel is Exposed
In Broad
Band
Day Light..:)
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what a brilliant way of putting it!
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Exactly.
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Hope all is well
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I’m absolutely all for owning all of my emotions and working with them. But some people seem to run on auto and don’t give them much thought and that’s bad. Like the guy who broke a Target employee’s arm over a face mask issue. Bad. So bad.
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Oh yes, that was bad. We are seeing more and more of that. Yikes.
Hope all is well
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That’s the fiction writer’s credo: don’t put a lid on it! Sliding into port is all the sweeter for having survived the storm.
Of course, there is a real risk of not making it – or the thrills are fake.
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It’s hard not to be angry about certain things going on in this country but you’re right. Anger does waste a lot of energy.
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Indeed, anger is everywhere at the moment. Sigh
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Anger. It can be a motivator. It motivated me through my 20s to leave the past behind and move on . Then I had to leave the anger behind. That required professional help.but it was successful.
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Oh wow. Indeed anger is multifacted.
Hope things are well
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Yes they are . At my age and stage I am content with life. Spring has arrived with its beauty and CV restrictions have been lifted on riding stables so I am able to ride again!
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